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Carl Edward Sagan ( / ˈseɪɡən /; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.
May 27, 2024 · Carl Sagan, American astronomer and science writer. A popular and influential figure in the United States, he was controversial in scientific, political, and religious circles for his views on extraterrestrial intelligence.
Apr 2, 2014 · Carl Sagan was one of the most well-known scientists of the 1970s and 1980s. He studied extraterrestrial intelligence, advocated for nuclear disarmament and co-wrote and hosted...
Sagan was the most famous scientist in America—the face of science itself. Now “Cosmos” is back, thanks largely to Seth MacFarlane, creator of TV’s “Family Guy” and a space buff since he was a...
Nov 22, 2021 · Astronomer Carl Sagan, called "America's most effective salesman of science" by Time magazine, spent much of his career translating technical scientific explanations into something...
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996) played a leading role in the American space program from its very beginning. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA beginning in the 1950s -- he briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon.
Mar 16, 2014 · He was a celebrity, scientist, and star of the original Cosmos, but who was the real Carl Sagan?
Carl Sagan lobbied NASA for ten years to command the Voyager 1 spacecraft to turn its camera homeward to take one last picture from beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. On Valentine’s Day in 1990 it did so, revealing our world to appear as but a single pixel from that distance.
Carl Sagan has 151 books on Goodreads with 1287901 ratings. Carl Sagan’s most popular book is Cosmos.
Carl Sagan was Earth's leading advocate for the greatest adventure in human history: missions of discovery to worlds beyond our own.
