[FPSPACE] Proposed Carl Sagan commemorative stamps unveiled

[LARRY KLAES]

Proposed Carl Sagan commemorative stamps unveiled
at Ithaca Sciencenter

By Anne Ju

A movement to immortalize famed Cornell astronomer
Carl Sagan with a U.S. postage stamp was launched
Feb. 11 for local media at the Ithaca Sciencenter.

Patrick Fish, founder of the Utica-based grassroots Sagan
Appreciation Society, and Charles Trautmann, executive
director of the Sciencenter, unveiled four renderings by
three artists or artist teams of proposed Sagan memorial
stamps that the society plans to submit to the U.S. Postal
Service for commissioning.

"As Carl was America's science popularizer, it seems fitting
that he be bestowed with a populist kind of honor," Fish said.
"Carl wasn't just an astronomer, physicist and the world's
pre-eminent science teacher. He was arguably the first
exobiologist, one of the fathers of global-warming awareness,
a peacemaker and a brilliant author who could make science
sound like poetry."

Trautmann read a statement by Sagan's widow, author Ann
Druyan, at the media launch. She described how Sagan had
been an avid stamp collector as a boy and how that interest
was perhaps early evidence of his "passion for the diversity
of Earth's cultures."

Full article here:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb08/sagan.stamps.aj.html