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NASA Plans "Carl Sagan Center" To Study Cosmos
FortKnox writes: "According to Y!, there will be a new NASA center, known as The Carl Sagan Center, that will study the cosmos, specializing in searching for life. Comprised of 3 (maybe 4) high tech labs, it will also include an exhibit area with an auditorium. Dedicating the center was one of the last things done by Goldin. The article has a great (brief) history of Carl Sagan, and everything involved in the center to be built."
Actually there is already a memorial to Sagan in Ithaca: The Carl Sagan Memorial Planet Walk. It consists of a model of the solar system laid out over downtown Ithaca. The sun is 30cm across and is featured prominently on the Ithaca Commons, a downtown shopping district. Pluto is close to the foot of Cayuga Lake at the Ithaca Science Center, over a kilometer away. At this scale the Earth is just a 1/10th of inch across, but they mount the planetary models so that they can be viewed through a magnifying lens.
If NASA really wanted to memorialize Sagan with a new research lab, then at least one of the buildings should be at Cornell where he spent his career, even after he could have left little Ithaca behind and gone to live in DC, or LA, or work at the JPL.
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