1. 9 Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books.

2. Albert Einstein was an Ashkenazi Jew, as were Gertrude Stein and Carl Sagan.

3. Astronomer Carl Sagan said of nuclear war: “There is little question that our global civilization would be destroyed.”

4. The Contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et

5. The name of the mission, "Arecibo", is likely a reference to the Arecibo message which was a radio message created by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan designed as a message to possible extraterrestrial life.

6. Byron Leigh HAtch, founder of the Carl Sagan team, all around smart and thoughtful guy, and a setizen since shortly after [email protected] began in 1999, passed away in August.There is a thread for leaving remembrances here.He will be missed.