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Encyclopedia > Eric Burgess

Eric Burgess is a freelance consultant, lecturer and journalist, who has written about the Pioneer program of space missions since the first tests in 1957.


Burgess is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and British Interplanetary Society, and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.


Burgess is credited with the original idea that the Pioneer probes should carry a message for extraterrestrial intelligences. Together with Richard Hoaxland he approached Carl Sagan about this, which eventually resulted in the Pioneer plaque.


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Eric Burgess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (118 words)
Eric Burgess is a freelance consultant, lecturer and journalist, who has written about the Pioneer program of space missions since the first tests in 1957.
Burgess is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and British Interplanetary Society, and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He is credited with the original idea that the Pioneer probes should carry a message for extraterrestrial intelligences.
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