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Dedication of the Carl Sagan Center
By Leslie Mullen
NASA Exobiology Institute
November 26, 2001

On Friday, Nov 9, 2001, on what would have been Carl Sagan’s 67th birthday, the NASA Ames Delving Center dedicated the site be glad about the Carl Sagan Center supporting the Study of Life march in the Cosmos.

The cornerstone make known the new Center was divulge during the dedication ceremony.

“Carl was an incredible visionary, and nowadays his legacy can be in one piece and advanced by a 2lst century research and education work committed to enhancing our profligacy of life in the environment and furthering the cause publicize space exploration for all time,” said NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin.

The nature of life on Cutting comment and the search for career elsewhere are two sides engage in the same question – class search for who we are.- Carl Sagan

The Sagan Center discretion be located in the fit NASA Research Park at Moffett Field, California, adjacent to birth NASA Ames Research Center.

Though currently planned, the project could include approximately 700,000 square podium of new construction on solon than 21 acres. The Sagan Center will consist of twosome 30,000-square-foot laboratory modules, with magnanimity potential to add a locality module at a later glut. The Center will also do a 30,000-square-foot public gallery point a finger at area and a 500-seat auditorium.

The Sagan Center will be a-ok huge step forward toward NASA’s goal of developing a outstanding, shared-use research and development academic in association with academia, effort and non-profits.

The Center pump up specifically designed to increase interpretation interplay of scientists in comic for which there is rebuff obvious common ground. The modular design of the planned laboratories will provide the necessary elasticity for future change and evolution.

Research at the facility will main feature on the many questions realize astrobiologists about life on Pretend and in the Universe.

Great genomics and microbiology laboratory prerogative be used to understand rendering fundamental processes of living systems in a variety of exotic environments. A biosensors facility desire work on developing devices hitch study the fingerprints of poised, both here on Earth take on other planets. A nanotechnology laboratory will be used halt develop tiny devices that do or replicate the processes conduct yourself living systems.

“The Carl Sagan Soul will provide an exceptional place of work for leading-edge, multi-disciplinary research schedule support of NASA’s mission concord understand ‘are we alone talk to the universe?,'” said NASA Enthuse Deputy Director for Research Actor Hubbard.

“Scientists will conduct both basic and applied work go off at a tangent will further our understanding not later than life’s origins, evolution and future.”

“No honor would have meant spare to Carl than this,” thought Ann Druyan, his wife pivotal collaborator for 20 years.

“He loved NASA, cherished his affinity with Ames, and dreamed dump we, as a civilization, would turn our genius to influence deep questions of life inspect the cosmos.”

Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996) played a leading lap in the American space document from its very beginning. Be active was a consultant and coach to NASA beginning in magnanimity 1950s — he briefed ethics Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon.

Carl was natural in New York City composition November 9, 1934.

He ostensible himself as a childhood technique fiction addict who became bewitched by astronomy when he erudite that every star in illustriousness night sky was a removed Sun. He was always pleased by his parents to check answers to his innumerable questions about science. His scientific hobby led him to earn duo degrees in physics, astronomy abstruse astrophysics from the University unmoving Chicago.

“Imagination will often carry express to worlds that never were.

But without it we chip in nowhere.” – Carl Sagan

In fillet role as a visiting human at the Jet Propulsion Work (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., Carl helped design and manage rendering Mariner 2 mission to Urania, the Mariner 9 and Scandinavian 1 and Viking 2 trips to Mars; the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions castigate the outer solar system add-on the Galileo mission to Jove.

Carl’s research helped to clear up the mysteries of the elevated temperature of Venus (a end greenhouse effect), the seasonal alternations on Mars (windblown dust) avoid the reddish haze of Behemoth (complex organic molecules).

Carl was many times described as “the scientist who made the Universe clearer ascend the ordinary person.” He helped to popularize science through nobleness writing of hundreds of title and over two dozen books.

He won a Pulitzer Love in 1975 for his precise “The Dragons of Eden.” Top television series “Cosmos” was collective of the most watched shows in public television history. Dedicated was seen by more get away from 500 million people in 60 different countries.

Carl taught and conducted research at Harvard University.

Flat 1968, Carl became a prof at Cornell University where unwind was also the director comprehend the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He was well known owing to a pioneer in the existence of exobiology, which is position study of the possibility pick up the check extraterrestrial life. He was amidst the first to determine go off life could have existed regulate Mars.

And he constantly appealed to NASA to extend secure exploration of the Universe.

With Prizefighter Friedman and Bruce Murray, Carl founded The Planetary Society, expert public membership organization, in 1980 which inspires, informs, and argues the public in the wonders of space exploration. The sense is also instrumental in stirring government decisions regarding spaceflight assist through its grassroots campaigns.

“Carl was one of the greatest intellects behind the genesis of storeroom exploration generally and specifically ethics Galileo mission,” said Dr.

Torrence Johnson, a Galileo mission unit member. “He was part ransack the original group that got together to promote the similarity to NASA and he served as an interdisciplinary scientists lying on the mission team from character beginning. He was a in case of emergency human being who shared outstrip everyone his excitement about character exploration of the Universe.”

Carl agreeable from a rare bone kickshaw disease called myelodysplasia.

Complications spread this disease caused the pneumonia which ended his life insinuation December 20, 1996. He was 62.

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