Sagan was Dir. of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies & David Duncan Prof. of Astronomy & Space Sciences at Cornell University.He played a leading role in the Mariner, Viking & Voyage expeditions to the planets & was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for literature. He died in 1996. JD Jackson is an educator, actor and audiobook narrator. Currently an adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theatre from Temple University and several television and movie credits, including House, ER, Law & Order, Third Watch and Hack. He has also received several AudioFile Earphone Awards for his work. Ann Druyan is an Emmy Award-winning American writer and Peabody Award-winning producer specialising in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. She was the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.
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