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{{Short description|American artist and writer (1940–2023)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Linda Sagan
| birth_name         = Linda Salzman
| birth_date         = 16 July 1940
| birth_place        = 
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2023|11|22|1940|7|16|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Carl Sagan]]|1968|1981|end=divorced}}
| children           = [[Nick Sagan]]
}}
[[File:Pioneer10-plaque.jpg|thumb|Salzman's illustration on the Pioneer plaque. This image is NASA's censored version of Salzman's original illustration, which included the female external genitalia.]]

'''Linda Salzman''' (July 16, 1940 – November 22, 2023) was an American artist and writer.

==Biography==
Salzman Sagan created the artwork for the [[Pioneer plaque|plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft]]<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zskpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6OwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7426,3343093 A newspaper article written in ''The Spokesman Review'' published: Feb 24, 1972] retrieved 18:50, 8th of July 2010</ref> and coproduced the [[Voyager Golden Record]].<ref name="record">[https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-110732090 From a critical essay -  Moss, Alexandra (author), published: November 1, 2003 ]{{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref>

Salzman Sagan co-authored the book ''[[Murmurs of Earth]]'' with her husband, [[astronomer]] [[Carl Sagan]], whom she married on April 6, 1968; the marriage lasted until their divorce in 1981.<ref>Head, Tom (ed.)  [https://books.google.com/books?id=gJ1rDj2nR3EC&pg=PR22 Conversations with Carl Sagan], pp. xxii, xiv (University Press of Mississippi 2006) ({{ISBN|978-1578067367}})</ref>

Salzman Sagan was the mother of author and screenwriter [[Nick Sagan]].<ref name="record"/>

Linda Salzman Sagan died in [[Ithaca, New York]], on November 22, 2023, at the age of 83.<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/linda-sagan-obituary?pid=205765980 Linda Sagan Obituary]</ref>

==See also==
*[[NASA Ames Research Center]]

==References==
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