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Annual Award for Television Excellence—1981—Ohio State University—PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Apollo Achievement Award—National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal—National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1977) Emmy—Outstanding Individual Achievement—1981—PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Emmy—Outstanding Informational Series—1981—PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Fellow of the American Physical Society–1989 Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal—National Aeronautics and Space Administration Helen Caldicott Leadership Award – Awarded by Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament Hugo Award—1981—Best Dramatic Presentation—Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Hugo Award—1981—Best Related Non-Fiction Book—Cosmos Hugo Award—1998—Best Dramatic Presentation—Contact Humanist of the Year—1981—Awarded by the American Humanist Association American Philosophical Society—1995—Elected to membership. In Praise of Reason Award—1987—Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Isaac Asimov Award—1994—Committee for Skeptical Inquiry John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award—1982—American Astronautical Society Special non-fiction Campbell Memorial Award—1974—The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective Joseph Priestley Award—"For distinguished contributions to the welfare of mankind" Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific—1974 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement—1975 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal—Awarded by the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation Locus Award 1986—Contact Los Angeles Times Book Prize's 1996 Science and Technology category for The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Lowell Thomas Award—The Explorers Club—75th Anniversary Masursky Award—American Astronomical Society Miller Research Fellowship—Miller Institute (1960–1962) Oersted Medal—1990—American Association of Physics Teachers Peabody Award—1980—PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Le Prix Galabert d'astronautique—International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Public Welfare Medal—1994—National Academy of Sciences Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction—1978—The Dragons of Eden Science Fiction Chronicle Award—1998—Dramatic Presentation—Contact UCLA Medal–1991 Inductee to International Space Hall of Fame in 2004 Named the "99th Greatest American" on June 5, 2005, Greatest American television series on the Discovery Channel Named an honorary member of the Demosthenian Literary Society on November 10, 2011 New Jersey Hall of Fame—2009—Inductee. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) Pantheon of Skeptics—April 2011—Inductee Grand-Cross of the Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal (November 23, 1998) Honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree from Whittier College in 1978. Was given the 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association's Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award.
=== Posthumous recognition ===
==== Sites named after him ==== In 1993, Sky & Telescope held a contest to replace the name of the Big Bang model. Suggestions included "Hubble Bubble", "Bertha D. Universe" and "SAGAN" ("Scientists Awestruck at God's Awesome Nature".) The panel, including Sagan, Timothy Ferris and Hugh Downs, turned them down. In 1997, the Sagan Planet Walk was opened in Ithaca, New York. It is a walking-scale model of the Solar System, extending 1.2 km from the center of The Commons in downtown Ithaca to the Sciencenter, a hands-on museum. The exhibition was created in memory of Sagan, who was an Ithaca resident and Cornell Professor. Professor Sagan had been a founding member of the museum's advisory board. The landing site of the uncrewed Mars Pathfinder spacecraft was renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station on July 5, 1997. Asteroid 2709 Sagan is named in his honor, as is the Carl Sagan Institute for the search of habitable planets. On November 9, 2001, on what would have been Sagan's 67th birthday, the Ames Research Center dedicated the site for the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Cosmos. "Carl was an incredible visionary, and now his legacy can be preserved and advanced by a 21st century research and education laboratory committed to enhancing our understanding of life in the universe and furthering the cause of space exploration for all time", said NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin. Ann Druyan was at the center as it opened its doors on October 22, 2006. On October 21, 2019, the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Theater was opened at the Center for Inquiry West in Los Angeles. His papers, comprising 595,000 items, are archived in the Library of Congress.
==== Awards named after him ==== Sagan has at least three awards named in his honor:
The Carl Sagan Memorial Award presented jointly since 1997 by the American Astronomical Society and The Planetary Society, The Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science presented since 1998 by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (AAS/DPS) for outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public—Carl Sagan was one of the original organizing committee members of the DPS, and The Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science presented by the Council of Scientific Society presidents (CSSP)—Sagan was the first recipient of the CSSP award in 1993.
==== Awards given to him ==== August 2007 the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) awarded Sagan posthumously a Lifetime Achievement Award. This honor has also been awarded to Harry Houdini and James Randi. In 2022, Sagan was posthumously awarded the Future of Life Award "for reducing the risk of nuclear war by developing and popularizing the science of nuclear winter." The honor, shared by seven other recipients involved in nuclear winter research, was accepted by his widow, Ann Druyan.