SETI public: Ann Druyan interview in Discover Magazine

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Discover Dialogue: Ann Druyan

Mistress of the Cosmos Sets Her Sail

‘If only an elite minority of Americans understands science and technology, there is no hope of democracy’

By Kathy A. Svitil

DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 11 | November 2003

This is an extended version, exclusive to the Discover Web site, of the article that appears in Discover Magazine

This fall a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch Cosmos 1, the world’s first solar sail spacecraft, into Earth orbit. Powered only by the pressure of the sun’s photons striking its eight massive Mylar-like panels, Cosmos 1 will be unique. It is the first space mission sponsored by a public organization, the 100,000-member Planetary Society, cofounded by the late Carl Sagan, and the first financed by a media outlet, Cosmos Studios, a science-based entertainment company run by Ann Druyan, Sagan’s widow and collaborator.

http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-03/departments/featdialogue/

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