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Article: 30 years after Voyager launch, time to again ask who we are.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 20, 2007
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Byline: Barbara Kerley
McKinleyville, CAlif. -- Thirty years ago, on Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched a Golden Record into space: a 12-inch, gold-plated disc of music, pictures, sounds, and greetings from planet Earth, bolted to the side of a Voyager space probe.
The idea behind the record was simple. Once Voyager 1 and 2 studied the outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - they would become the first man-made objects to leave our solar system for interstellar space. Why not include an introduction to Earth on the slim hope that the probes might one day be found by another life-form? We could reach across the galaxy and shake hands.
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