As America ’s frontmost ambassador to space , Carl Sagan has go on to animate our fascination with exploring beyond Earth . The Library of Congress has digitized its Carl Sagan archives , and several items just collectedonlinegive us an amazing new look into the head of the stargazer .
Some item from theSeth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archiveare a fun glimpse into Sagan ’s personal life sentence : young Carl playing the pianissimo or older Carl write to a young Neil deGrasse Tyson . Others reveal how seriously he assume not just science , but pass scientific ideas . Through poetry , novel , and even video games , he compellingly argued for explore infinite — and searching for extraterrestrial lifespan .
Take a expression through some of the item that caught our heart , below .
Home movies of a very young Carl Sagan playing the piano and playing outside.
Watch all thirty minutes of the picture at theLibrary of Congress ’s website .
Drawingby a 10- to 13-year-old Carl imagining the newspaper headlines of future spaceflight.
Paul Morigi / Getty .
Teenage Carl namedropping poets in a high school newspaper article on poetry and space.
In pondering the theory of interplanetary space travel , teenage Carl sees it fit to cite Tennyson . study thewhole clause here .
Notes for a novelwhere the NSA or CIA investigate UFOs.
Aletterto high school student Neil DeGrasse Tyson, inviting him to visit Cornell in 1975.
Arough draft of his novelContact—later made into the movie starring Jodie Foster—as dictated by Carl Sagan himself.
Anearly versionof his famous “Pale Blue Dot” quote.
The Atlantic has mark uphow Sagan ’s illustrious quote changed from draft to final version .
Ideasfor a video game version of Contact “as exciting as most violent video games.”
guide ikon : Getty / Hulton Archive .
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