Sagan

He had been cagey all along about what he had in mind, other than to include the moon landing and the Golden Record, the disc that astronomer and media personality Carl Sagan made for Voyager 1 and 2.

It’s a solid mix of Star Trek, the movie Contact, and anything and everything to do with Carl Sagan.

“It is well within our power to destroy our civilization and our species as well, if we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity,” Carl Sagan once warned us.

Sagan remained hopeful that “our compassion, our intelligence and our technology and our wealth,” could instead make the world a paradise.

Growing up in a Virginia Beach housing project, he was inspired by his proximity to the ocean, the Blue Angels fighter jets that roared overhead, Carl Sagan on TV, his grandmother, but especially his peers.