In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 to explore and document our solar system and the interstellar space beyond. The craft will drift for billions of years in the emptiness, each carrying a Golden Record inscribed with our message to any intelligent spacefaring civilization that discovers it.

Credits

Produced by Luke Groskin

VR/360 Direction by Jason Drakeford

Narrated by Annie Nero

Music by  

Audio Network

Dark Was the Night – Blind Willie Johnson

Tchenhoukoumen – Charles Duvelle

Original Golden Record Images and Diagrams

F.D. Drake, Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, NASA, United Nations, Hale Observatory,

Wayne Miller/ Magnum Photos, David Harvey / Woodfin Camp Inc.,

1955 Life Magazine © Time Inc. 1947

The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

The World Book Encyclopedia © Harper & Row Publishers Inc.

Ruby Mera / UNICEF, David Carroll, Stephen Dalton

F. D. Drake, Herman Eckelmann/ NAIC, Jon Lomberg

Gaston Rebuffat, Ray Manley/ Shostal Associates,

Isaac Newton, Lennart Nilsson, David Wickstrom

National Geographic Society Images

H. Edward Kim, William Albert Allard, Gordon W. Grahan,

James P. Blair, Thomas Nebbia, David Doubilet, Donna Grosvenor,

Joseph Scherschel, Goerge F. Mobley, Jodi Cobb