In 1977, NASA launched two space probes,
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.  Each carried a
Golden Record containing information about
Earth and its inhabitants.

Ann Druyan was responsible for the selection of
this information.

It was during her work on Voyager 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.