Deep Space

The complete history of Voyager’s Golden Record and what the decision about what to include revealed about how humanity sees itself

The Translators: How a Small Corps of Systems Engineers Converts Scientific Dreams Into Flight-Ready Hardware — and Why Their Disappearing Craft Threatens Everything We Want to Do Beyond Earth

The complete story of Voyager’s Golden Record: how a committee of scientists tried to explain humanity to the universe in 1977 and what their choices reveal about us