in 1977, NASA launched two space probes,
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

each probe carried a Golden Record containing
information about Earth and its inhabitants

Ann Druyan was responsible for the selection of
this information

it was during the Voyager Project that she met and
fell in love with astronomer Carl Sagan, whom she
later married

the missions of both probes continue to this day

Voyager 1 is now 9.5 billion miles from the Sun -
the most distant man-made object in space

the sound track of the video below, is an excerpt
from a WNYC's Radio Lab podcast

here, Ann Druyan, who lost her husband to pneu-
monia in 1996, tells of the personal significance of
the message of Voyager's Golden Record