Garrett Serviss, the Would-be-astronaut Who Helped Start the Space Age

摘要

"Carl Sagan" is a household name in our time. Through books, magazine articles, public appearances, and his enormously popular television series, Cosmos, Carl Sagan captured the attention of the world and introduced tens of millions of people to new perspectives on the universe. He emphasized the discoveries made by interplanetary spacecraft and through them altered public understanding of the solar system and our place in the universe. Sagan was also a professional research astronomer who specialized in planetary science, and he was especially interested in the search for life beyond earth. His novel Contact (1985) transformed him into a science fiction writer, and when the tale was turned into a major motion picture, movie-goers encountered the impact of a message from deep space.