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Carl Sagan, Nov. 9, 1934 – Dec. 20, 1996

Carl Sagan, Nov. 9, 1934 – Dec. 20, 1996

Today, November 9, 2014, Carl Sagan would have turned 80, no longer a surprising age. Instead, he died at a relatively young 62, a victim of myelodysplasia. An accomplished astronomer, science popularizer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, he was, and is, a hero of mine. On...
Voyager of Hope

Voyager of Hope

If our environment is the space we occupy, it is now interstellar. NASA reports: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion km) from our...