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Source: Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger, "Jack White: Carl Sagan's biggest fan," Washington Post , November 11, 2009.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/11/jack_white_carl_sagans_biggest.html

Excerpt: The guitarist-songwriter was on Capitol Hill for the Planetary Society's celebration of Carl Sagan on what would have been the late astronomer's 75th birthday. White is a huge fan of Sagan, who died in 1996. He told Sagan's widow and collaborator, Ann Druyan, that the Dead Weather's European tour bus had a Sagan room where the band watched old episodes of "Cosmos."

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