Cosmos

Carl Sagan was perhaps the best known science-celebrity of the 20th century. His 13-part television series called Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, was the first time that I – not even 7 years old and growing up behind the Iron Curtain in communist Bulgaria, had a glimpse of our amazing universe. The story of our Cosmos, as told brilliantly by Carl Sagan, had a profound impact not only on me but also on hundreds of millions of people across the world who also saw the film. Yesterday I happened to discover Carl Sagan, A Cosmic Celebrity, a film about the man behind Cosmos. This 45 minute documentary follows Sagan’s personal story from his birth in a struggling Jewish family during the Great Depression to his eventual tragic death from cancer. The movie also documents his important scientific contribution to NASA, his campaign against [...]