Carl Sagan was an astronomer, astrophysicist, author and a science communicator. Born in 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, he chaired the committee that selected the contents of the Voyager Golden Record, two phonographic records that were attached to the Voyager Spacecrafts launched in 1977. Said records contain images and sounds that describe the diversity of life and culture on Planet Earth, as a mean to communicate with any extraterrestrial life who may find them. Sagan is also known for co-writing and narrating the television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and the book Cosmos, which accompanies the series.