English: Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray (seated right to left) and (standing) Louis Friedman (standing, right), the founders of The Planetary Society at the time of signing the papers formally incorporating the organization. The fourth person is Harry Ashmore(standing, left), an advisor, who greatly helped in the founding of the Society. Ashmore was a Pulitizer Prize winning journalist and leader in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and 70s.