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Linda Salzman (July 16, 1940 – November 22, 2023) was an American artist and writer. Biography. Salzman Sagan created the artwork for the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft [1] and coproduced the Voyager Golden Record. [2]
Nov 28, 2023 · Linda Salzman Sagan who co-created two iconic messages to extraterrestrials—the Voyager Golden Record and the Pioneer Plaque —has died. She was 83-years-old.
Nov 25, 2023 · Artist and screenwriter, Linda Salzman Sagan, has died at 83. Born in New York City, Linda resided in Ithaca for many years. She designed NASA's Pioneer Plaque and was part of the team that...
Mar 10, 2018 · He designed two nude figures with the help of his wife, Linda Salzman Sagan, and his friend Frank Drake. Linda drew the woman to have Asian features, and the man African, according to Carl’s...
Artist and screenwriter, Linda Salzman Sagan, has died at 83. Born in New York City, Linda resided in Ithaca for many years. She designed NASA's Pioneer Plaque and was part of the team...
Linda Salzman Sagan was given the task of assembling the greetings. The story behind the creation of the "interstellar message" is chronicled in the book, "Murmurs of Earth", by Carl Sagan, et al. Unfortunately, not much information is given about the individual speakers.
After all, the Pioneers would become the first-ever man-made objects with enough speed to escape the Solar System. In a short timeframe, Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman needed to devise a visual representation of humanity, for a theoretical audience they could know nothing about.
Linda Salzman was born on 16 July 1940 in New York City, New York, USA. Linda was a writer, known for General Hospital (1963), Island Son (1989) and Knots Landing (1979). Linda was married to Carl Sagan. Linda died on 22 November 2023 in Ithaca, New York, USA.
Sagan passed along the idea to NASA, and to his surprise, the suggestion was embraced and approved by every level of the hierarchy. At that, Sagan joined Professor Frank Drake of Cornell University and, Sagan’s then-wife, artist Linda Salzman Sagan, to craft this extraterrestrial message.
A Message from Earth Author(s): Carl Sagan, Linda Salzman Sagan and Frank Drake Source: Science, New Series, Vol. 175, No. 4024 (Feb. 25, 1972), pp. 881-884. Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
