Pioneer plaque
Videos
The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques that were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10
The illustration on the Pioneer plaque
The plaque attached to Pioneer 10
Carl Sagan
Videos
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assistant professor at Harvard, Sagan later moved to Cornell, where he was the David Duncan Pro
Pioneer plaque
…was first mentioned by Eric Burgess when he visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, during the Mariner 9 mission. He approached Carl Sagan, who had lectured about communication with intelligent extraterrestrials at a conference in Crimea. Sagan was enthusiastic about the idea of sending a…
Sagan in 1980
Sagan (age 16) in the 1951 Rahway High School yearbook
Sagan in the University of Chicago's 1954 yearbook
Sagan and the Viking spacecraft