Bob Lee · CC BY 2.0

Co-wrote the original Cosmos series with Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981, and went on to create, produce, and write its sequels, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds. In the late 1970s she served as creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, selecting the sounds and images etched onto the Golden Record still traveling on both Voyager spacecraft.