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    Carl Sagan

    What year did he and Russian Astronomer I.S. Shklovsky publish their work entitled "Intelligent Life in the Universe"?Carl Sagan

      1966. In 1961, he attended his first conference on extraterrestrial life; in 1971, he and Frank Drake design a plaque to go on the Pioneer space probes; and in 1978, he wins a Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Dragons of Eden".

    He published the novel "Contact" in 1985. A movie of the same name was released in 1997. Who directed this movie?Carl Sagan

      Robert Zemeckis. Robert Zemeckis is also known for directing the "Back to the Future" trilogy, "Forrest Gump", "What Lies Beneath", and "Cast Away". "Contact" was dedicated to Sagan because he died before the movie could be released.

    Carl died on December 20, 1996 of what disease?Carl Sagan

      Bone marrow disease. He was 62 years old when he passed away from pneumonia, a complication of his bone marrow disease. He died at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He had received a bone marrow transplant there in April of 1995. The official name of his bone marrow disease was Myelodysplasia. Myelodysplasia is a form of anemia also called Pre-leukemia Syndrome.

    NASA launched its Pathfinder Mars Lander sixteen days before he passed away. As a tribute to him, they renamed it what?Carl Sagan

      Carl Sagan Memorial Station. The announcement was made on July 4, 1997 by NASA administrator Dan Goldin. It was just hours after the successful landing of Pathfinder in the Ares Vallis region of Mars. The newly named Sagan Station sent back over 16,000 images before contact ended on September 27, 1997.

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