His duties included briefing the Apollo astronauts that were to be the first people to step foot on an extraterrestrial body, contributing towards the construction and subsequent experiments done by robotic spacecrafts sent to explore the solar system, investigating radio emissions from Venus to accurately determine its surface temperature and taking part in the research, management and development of the first Mariner mission to Venus in the early 1960's.
During this period, he explored a number of different fields including the arts, astronomy, physics, and planetary science before he ultimately moved to Ithaca, New York to direct the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University.īeforehand, he was heavily involved in NASA's space program, where he worked as an adviser. There, he was a participant in the Ryerson Astronomical Society. Spending most of his childhood in a small town in New Jersey, he set out for Illinois where he attended the University of Chicago. Carl Sagan’s 1951 High School Graduation PhotoĬarl was born in Brooklyn, New York to an immigrant from Russia (which is where he inherited his inane curiosity of all things from) and a housewife from New York.
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