"Contact" astronomer

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Carl Sagan had been a conventional antimilitary liberal, and so assumed that a radio message from space would shock humanity, damping down wars and ushering in a cosmic sense of cooperation between nations.

Johnson, President Eisenhower, Secretary Wilson, the astronauts Deke Slayton and Mike Collins, and the scientists Jack Eddy, John Houbolt and Carl Sagan, but they are not given fictitious roles or inflated speeches.

Sagan was responding to people who claimed to have seen alien starships on Earth and to have met with aliens, prior to First Contact.

Therefore, as Linda Sagan has mentioned, the recipe for detecting life on Mars is "Add water.

The plan was simple Defiant, Chaffee, and Sagan would attempt to destroy the lunar fragments threatening the planet.

In the meantime, Chaffee and Sagan would demolish the smaller, but still potentially lethal, fragments.

Within moments, Chaffee and then Sagan had dropped from Defiant and into space.

For nearly six hours, the crews aboard Defiant, Chaffee, and Sagan had battled the debris field, winnowing the number of potentially deadly lunar fragments down one by one.

Twice, Chaffee and Sagan had been called in to assist Defiant when larger fragments had broken up under the ships assault.

Considering the damage Chaffee had sustained from its collision with one of the fragments, Sagan was obviously the better choice for this task.

While Sagan s extensive damages would require a week to ten days more to repair, Chaffee s plasma leak had quickly been patched.

They were all there, all the Grand Old Men of the field: McKay, Kliest, Taranto--even Sagan, little more than an ancient withered husk in his electric wheelchair.

From the proselytizing, ENCOURAGING HELPFUL fee department at one end to the peregrinations of Mailer or Wodehouse or Drew Pearson or Meyer Levin or Gerald Green or Arthur Clarke, Irving Shulman, and later, Carl Sagan, the triumph of Grub Street and its processes was never in question.

When Sagan had been struck by the lunar fragments, Ezri had suffered a hairline fracture of her left radius, and an anterior dislocation of her right sternoclavicular joint.

But whereas Bosk had determined that Ohme was murdered by Derek Sagan, the Loti was following a different theory.