#366 Ann Druyan - Cosmos: Possible Worlds
RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 10th 2020.
Ann Druyan was the creative director of NASA’s Voyager Interstellar Message Project and program director of the first solar sail deep space mission, launched on a Russian ICBM in 2005. With her late husband, Carl Sagan, she co-authored the original 1980s Emmy Award– and Peabody Award–winning TV series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and six New York Times bestsellers. Additionally, Druyan was co-creator and co-producer of the Warner Bros. feature film Contact, starring Jodie Foster and directed by Bob Zemeckis. Druyan was the lead executive producer, a director, and coauthor of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, produced for Fox and the National Geographic Channel, for which she won Peabody, Producers Guild, and Emmy Awards in 2014. The show, which received 13 Emmy nominations, has been seen in 181 countries. She is an executive producer, writer, director, and creator of Cosmos: Possible Worlds, first broadcast in 2020. The asteroids Sagan (2709) and Druyan (4970) are in perpetual wedding ring orbit around the sun.
In this episode, we talk about the series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Carl Sagan, the Voyager Interstellar Message and the Golden Record, science communication and science journalism, and our place in the Universe and our future.
Time Links:
The making of Cosmos
Carl Sagan
The Voyager Interstellar Message and the Golden Record
How likely is it for us to ever get in contact with extraterrestrials?
Our place in the Universe, and our future
Dealing with people with “weird” ideas when communicating science
A new Cosmos series in the near future?
Relevant links:
IMDB page: https://imdb.to/3bI2Xji
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3iuTle4
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (IMDB): https://imdb.to/2RfBdZK
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (book): https://amzn.to/2GGg7lg
Voyager’s Golden Record: https://bit.ly/33ja7qi