Although the blog is called 'World of Music', this post is out of this world... and millions of miles into space....
I've blogged previously over on my main blog: LivingGeography about the space probes Voyager I and II, which left the solar system a while ago, having been originally launched in 1977.
It has featured in one of the early Star Trek movies and elsewhere.
It carries a Golden Record and graphics which provide details on the location of the Earth and sounds and images representing life on earth.
The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals.
To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.
The progressive rock band Big Big Train have a track called Voyager, which is all about the space probe. Check it out here.
Some selected lyrics:
Heading further out
To reach uncharted shorelines
Setting sail for the distant stars
The wonder of new worlds
Beyond the next headland
Over the far horizon
Out into the open skies
To find out what we are
How far we've come
How far we can go
Lyrics: Gregory Spawton
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