NASA's Voyager I probe, leaving our solar system 12 billion miles from Earth in September 2013, contains a voice message from which US president, in office at its launch?
Contents of the Voyager Golden Record committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included. Here is an excerpt of President Carter's official statement placed on the Voyager spacecraft for its trip outside the Solar System, June 16, 1977: We cast this message into the cosmos ... Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky
Space probe Earth, traveling away from both the Earth and the Sun at a relatively faster speed than any other probe. As of September 12, 2013, "Voyager 1" is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from the Sun. On August 25, 2012, "Voyager 1" became the first human made object to enter interstellar space. "Voyager 1" has not had a functioning plasma sensor since 1980, but a solar flare in 2012 allowed scientists from NASA to measure vibrations of the plasma surrounding the craft. The vibrations allowed scientists to measure the plasma to be much denser than measurements taken in the