Carl Sagan Still Inspires Space Explorers to Continue the Search
Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, April 2, 2011
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" are the immortal words of Carl Sagan a noted figure of the human journey to the beginning of space and time whose path to understanding is an inspiration for millions of young people aspiring to be part of the human search for understanding of the universe. Immortal words leading the current human search for planets with Earth-like characteristics, these words have helped prepare the path the current and next generation of human space explorers will follow during the centuries ahead.
Carl Sagan continues to aspire young people around the world today to reach into the heavens with their minds to delve into the mysteries of the cosmos, in the form of the Carl Sagan Fellowship Program. A program formed by NASA to help the young people of the world continue the human journey to the beginning of space and time and break beyond the bounds of present understanding of Earth-like planets in the galaxy, the Carl Sagan Fellowship Program recently named another five space explorers to the fellowship list.
The Carl Sagan Fellowship Program was created in 2008 and awards selected postdoctoral scientists with annual stipends of around $64,500 for up to three years, and throws in about $16,000 for the annual research budget of each scientist.
Who are this years 2011 Carl Sagan Fellows? This year David Kipping, who will be looking for moons around exo-planets while working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been selected, along with Bryce Croll from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will be delving into the mysteries of the atmospheres of exo-planets. In addition, Vladimir Lyra over at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been selected for the award and will be studying planet-forming disks and exo-planet formation, along with Katie Morzinski at the University of Arizona, who will be studying Jupiter-like exo-planets, has been selected to receive a Carl Sagan fellowship award. Lastly, Sloane Wiktorowicz at the University of California, Santa Cruz has been selected as the fifth and final 2011 Carl Sagan Fellow, and he'll be trying to detect new exo-planets.
NASA has also created two other fellowship programs named after scientists that have changed the boundaries of human understanding during their times. The Einstein Fellowship Program, which provides aspiring space explorers conducting research into the physics of the cosmos and the Hubble Fellowship Program, which delves into the mysteries surrounding the beginning of space and time.
You can check out the careers and future scientific endeavors of these five space explorers by clicking on this link to NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program at JPL on the grounds of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
Carl Sagan continues to aspire young people around the world today to reach into the heavens with their minds to delve into the mysteries of the cosmos, in the form of the Carl Sagan Fellowship Program. A program formed by NASA to help the young people of the world continue the human journey to the beginning of space and time and break beyond the bounds of present understanding of Earth-like planets in the galaxy, the Carl Sagan Fellowship Program recently named another five space explorers to the fellowship list.
The Carl Sagan Fellowship Program was created in 2008 and awards selected postdoctoral scientists with annual stipends of around $64,500 for up to three years, and throws in about $16,000 for the annual research budget of each scientist.
Who are this years 2011 Carl Sagan Fellows? This year David Kipping, who will be looking for moons around exo-planets while working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been selected, along with Bryce Croll from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will be delving into the mysteries of the atmospheres of exo-planets. In addition, Vladimir Lyra over at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been selected for the award and will be studying planet-forming disks and exo-planet formation, along with Katie Morzinski at the University of Arizona, who will be studying Jupiter-like exo-planets, has been selected to receive a Carl Sagan fellowship award. Lastly, Sloane Wiktorowicz at the University of California, Santa Cruz has been selected as the fifth and final 2011 Carl Sagan Fellow, and he'll be trying to detect new exo-planets.
NASA has also created two other fellowship programs named after scientists that have changed the boundaries of human understanding during their times. The Einstein Fellowship Program, which provides aspiring space explorers conducting research into the physics of the cosmos and the Hubble Fellowship Program, which delves into the mysteries surrounding the beginning of space and time.
You can check out the careers and future scientific endeavors of these five space explorers by clicking on this link to NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program at JPL on the grounds of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.