Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan (born 13 June 1949) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American writer, producer, and director specializing in the communication of science. Carl Sagan asked her to be the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, in 1977. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos with him. They married the following year.

She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey, and its sequel series, Cosmos Possible Worlds, as well as the book of the same name, and directed episodes of both series as well.

Druyan served as program director of the first solar-sail deep-space mission, Cosmos 1, a project by Cosmos Studios and The Planetary Society to test a solar sail in space, launched on a Russian ICBM in 2005.