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Life of Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 9, 1934
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Sagan's parents take him to the World's Fair and it influenced him in the field of technology
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Sagan'a family worried about family members in Europe- some family members were in the Holocaust.
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Sagan's visits to the library and New York's, American Muesum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium influence his love for astronomy. Loved Sci-fi novels by H.G. Wells about life on Mars.
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Advisor to NASA, where one of his duties included briefing the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon
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Sagan received his graduation from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey
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Attended University of Chicago, recieved bachelor of arts in"nothing" with honors.
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Earned Bachelor of Science at University of Chicago
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Got phD in philosophy in astronomy and astrophysics
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Sagan remained a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley
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Mariner 2 confirmed Sagan’s conclusions on Venus’s surface conditions
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Sagan started his career working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Linda Salzman
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Lectured and researched at Harvard, and became full time professor at Cornell.
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Gold-andonized attached to probe Pioneer 10
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Sagan also helped Frank Drake write the Arecibo message, a radio message beamed into space from the Arecibo radio telescope on November 16, 1974, aimed at informing potential extraterrestrials about Earth.
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Wrote Cosmos TV show, aired for almost a year
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Nuclear Winter
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After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62.
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
