A six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar space on Voyager’s Golden Record, and he was not chosen at random — Carl Sagan’s son Nick said: “Hello from the children of planet Earth.”
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The idea was simple and a little mad In 1977, NASA attached a gold-plated copper record to each of the two Voyager spacecraft before they left Earth. A message in a bottle thrown into the dark, in case anything out there ever found it. Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977, and it has been […] The post A six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar space on Voyager’s Golden Record, and he was not chosen at random — Carl Sagan’s son Nick said: “Hello from the children of planet Earth.” appeared first on Space Daily .
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