Linda Salzman is an American artist and writer.
Biography
Salzman created the artwork for the
plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft and coproduced the
Voyager Golden Record
The Voyager Golden Records are two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for ...
.
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She co-authored the book ''Murmurs of Earth
Murmur usually means:
* Quiet or indistinct speech
*Breathy voice, a type of phonation in speech, also known as a "murmured voice"
*Heart murmur, a pathologic heart sound produced as a result of turbulent blood
Murmur can also refer to:
Music
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'' with her husband, astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on ext ...
, whom she married on April 6, 1968; the marriage lasted until their divorce in 1981.[Head, Tom (ed.)]
Conversations with Carl Sagan
pp. xxii, xiv (University Press of Mississippi 2006) ()
Salzman is the mother of author and screenwriter Nick Sagan
Nicholas Julian Zapata Sagan (born September 16, 1970) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the science fiction novels '' Idlewild'', '' Edenborn'', and '' Everfree'', and has also written scripts for episodes of '' Star ...
.
See also
*NASA Ames Research Center
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laborat ...
References
Living people
Interstellar messages
American women television writers
American television writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sagan family
American Jews
Carl Sagan
Year of birth missing (living people)
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