“It’s very hard to recapture what the future seemed like in those days,” Lomberg said. The two men met at a time of great optimism about the world technology would build.
By the time he left to catch his connecting flight, Sagan had offered Lomberg a job illustrating his forthcoming science book, which would eventually be published as “The Cosmic Connection.” Their creative partnership would last until Sagan’s death in 1996 from bone marrow disease. The two spent Sagan’s layover discussing science fiction, art and astronomy. To his surprise, Sagan replied that he would be passing through Toronto on an upcoming trip. He wrote Sagan a fan letter and enclosed some photographs of his paintings.
The identical plaques on the sister spacecraft were the first things humans sent into space for the inhabitants of a different civilization. The Cornell University professor spearheaded an effort to create plaques engraved with a simple map of Earth’s location within the galaxy and the figures of a man and a woman. With the Pioneer project, Sagan spotted an opportunity.
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