Passport to Knowledge
Geoff Haines-Stiles was a Senior Producer and director on Carl Sagan’s original COSMOS series (3 Emmys, and the Peabody Award), and Erna Akuginow worked with Carl on the NUCLEUS sequel. They partnered to create the first live broadcasts from the South Pole and the Antarctic Peninsula, and then collaborated with the Smithsonian Institution and the Brazilian government and—with the loan of the NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite and a team of engineers—produced the
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- Website: http://passporttoknowledge.com/
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- Inception (Wikidata): 1994 (Source 2: Wikidata Q30282501, revision 2474536866)
- Country (Wikidata; date unspecified): United States (Source 2: Wikidata Q30282501, revision 2474536866; Source 3: Wikidata label: Q30, revision 2556188301)
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- Passport to Knowledge — Official Website (official)
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- Wikidata label: Q30, revision 2556188301 (knowledge-base)
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Geoff Haines-Stiles was a Senior Producer and director on Carl Sagan’s original COSMOS series (3 Emmys, and the Peabody Award), and Erna Akuginow worked with Carl on the NUCLEUS sequel. They partnered to create the first live broadcasts from the South Pole and the Antarctic Peninsula, and then collaborated with the Smithsonian Institution and the Brazilian government and—with the loan of the NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite and a team of engineers—produced the
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