Embedded in the Voyager Golden Record’s Sounds of Earth montage are the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, recorded soon after she fell in love with Carl Sagan — a private meditation on human experience now drifting through interstellar space, waiting for a liste

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Carl Sagan's team considered sending a nude photograph of a man and a pregnant woman on the Voyager Golden Record, but after the controversy over the nude Pioneer plaque, the final record used a silhouette instead
Voyager 1’s famous Pale Blue Dot photograph was nearly never taken — Carl Sagan pushed NASA to turn the camera back toward Earth after the planetary mission was over, while engineers worried the Sun’s glare could damage the optics
In 1990, after years of lobbying by Carl Sagan, Voyager 1 turned its camera back toward home from about 6 billion kilometres away and photographed Earth as a pale blue speck smaller than a single pixel — an image NASA had repeatedly resisted because it
A NASA satellite launched in 1976 carries a Carl Sagan–designed plaque sealed inside its core, mapping Earth's continents 268 million years ago, at launch, and 8.4 million years from now — and that last date is no accident, because it's roughly when the sat
Quote of the day by American astronomer Carl Sagan: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star
30 years ago, Carl Sagan revealed exactly how a ‘charlatan’ leader could take over the U.S.
Quote by Carl Sagan: “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another”
In 1995, Carl Sagan Made A Prediction About America's Future – It’s Now As Relevant As Ever
Quote of the day by Carl Sagan: “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it
46 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension using a sliced apple
There's A Recorded Message From Carl Sagan Waiting On The Surface Of Mars For The First Humans To Visit
The heiress of Carl Sagan searching for extraterrestrial life: "For the first time, humanity has the technology to find it"
New Carl Sagan documentary in the works from National Geographic and Seth MacFarlane
Carl Sagan's Widow Ann Druyan on the 'Mythic, Biblical Power' of a Solar Eclipse