Karla Peijs
Karla Maria Henriëtte Peijs (born 1 September 1944) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
God, the Universe and Everything Else
God, the Universe and Everything Else is a 1988 documentary featuring Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan, and moderated by Magnus Magnusson.
They discuss the Big Bang theory, God and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Louis Friedman
Louis Dill Friedman( born July 7, 1941) is an American astronautics engineer and space spokesperson.
He was born in New York and raised in the Bronx.
Dr. Friedman was a co-founder of The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Bruce C. Murray.
Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne( born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.
A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology( Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film" Interstellar".
In 2017, Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish" for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan( November 9, 1934 December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
He is best known as a science popularizer and communicator.
His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation.
Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect.
Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books.
He wrote many popular science books, such as" The Dragons of EdenBroca's Brain" and" Pale Blue Dot", and narrated and co-wrote the award- winning 1980 television series.
The most widely watched series in the history of American public television," Cosmos" has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries.
The book" Cosmos" was published to accompany the series.
He also wrote the science fiction novel" Contact", the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.
His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress.
Sagan advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra- Terrestrial Intelligence( SETI).
He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.
Sagan and his works received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book" The Dragons of Eden", and, regarding" Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", two Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award, and the Hugo Award.
He married three times and had five children.
After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62, on December 20, 1996.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Guillaume Frédéric Boson de Talleyrand- Périgord( 16 May 1832 – 21 February 1910), prince of Sagan( from 1845), duke of Sagan and duke of Talleyrand( from 1898) was a famous French dandy, and the grandson of Dorothea von Biron.
Carl Sagan Memorial Award
The Carl Sagan Memorial Award is an award presented jointly by the American Astronautical Society and The Planetary Society to an individual or group" who has demonstrated leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the Cosmos."
The annual award, first presented in 1997, was created in honor of American astronomer, astrobiologist and science popularizer, Carl Sagan( 1934 – 1996).
Steve Squyres
Steven Weldon Squyres( born January 9, 1956) is the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the Solar System such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets.
Squyres was the principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission( MER).
He is the recipient of the 2004 Carl Sagan Memorial Award and the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in Planetary Science.
On October 28, 2010, Squyres received the 2010 Mines Medal for his achievements as a researcher and professor.
He is the brother of Academy Award- nominated film editor Tim Squyres.
On September 13, 2019 it was announced that Squyres would retire from Cornell on September 22, 2019 and take the position of chief scientist at Blue Origin.

Question: Are both Karla Peijs and Carl Sagan from the same country?
Answer: no