Linda Salzman Sagan
Linda Salzman (July 16, 1940 – November 22, 2023) was an American artist and writer.
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Linda Salzman Sagan

Designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. Artwork prepared by Linda Salzman Sagan. Photograph by NASA Ames Research Center (NASA-ARC) · Ames Pioneer 10 · Public domain
- Name
- Linda Sagan
- Birth Name
- Linda Salzman
- Born
- 16 July 1940
- Died
- 22 November 2023
- Place of death
- Ithaca, New York, United States
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- writer · screenwriter · record producer
- Languages
- American English
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• Name — Linda Sagan • Birth Name — Linda Salzman • Born — 16 July 1940 • Died — 22 November 2023 • Place of death — Ithaca, New York, United States • Children — Nick Sagan • Illustration — Salzman's illustration on the Pioneer plaque. This image is NASA's censored version of Salzman's original illustration, which included the female external genitalia.
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Salzman Sagan created the artwork for the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft and coproduced the Voyager Golden Record. Salzman Sagan co-authored the book Murmurs of Earth with her husband, astronomer Carl Sagan, whom she married on April 6, 1968; the marriage lasted until their divorce in 1981. Salzman Sagan was the mother of author and screenwriter Nick Sagan. Linda Salzman Sagan died in Ithaca, New York, on November 22, 2023, at the age of 83.
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- 1.Jeremy Byman: Carl Sagan: In Contact with the Cosmos. Morgan Reynolds, 2001, ISBN 978-1-883-84655-8, Seite 37.
- 2.Jeremy Byman: Carl Sagan: In Contact with the Cosmos. Morgan Reynolds, 2001, ISBN 978-1-883-84655-8, Seite 108.
- 3.Marianne J. Dyson: Space and Astronomy: Decade by Decade. Facts On File, Inc., 2007, ISBN 978-0-8160-5536-4, Seite 187.
- 4.Pioneer Plaque Immortality. In: nicksagan.blogs.com vom 21. Mai 2010.
- 5.Evan Eisenberg: ‘The Vinyl Frontier’ Review: Greetings From Planet Earth. In: wsj.com vom 23. August 2019.
- 6.Paolo Ulivi, David M. Harland: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System. Part I: The Golden Age 1957–1982. Springer New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-73983-0, Seite 131.
- 7.Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body. W. W. Norton, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-34884-2, Seite 205.
- 8.Jonathan Scott: NASA’s interstellar mixtape: The art and music on the Voyager Golden Record. In: sciencefocus.com vom 17. September 2020.
- 9.Linda Sagan Obituary. legacy.com.
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