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Synopsis: Is it humankind's greatest achievement? 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a plutonium generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. In all likelihood Voyager will outlive humanity and all our creations. It could be the only thing to mark our existence. Perhaps some day an alien will find it and wonder. The story of Voyager is an epic of human achievement, personal drama and almost miraculous success. Launched 16 days apart in Autumn 1977, the twin Voyager space probes have defied all the odds, survived countless near misses and almost 40 years later continue to beam revolutionary information across unimaginable distances. With less computing power than a m
Director(s): Emer Reynolds
Production: Abramorama
  8 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
87
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PG
Year:
2017
121 min
$13,557
Website
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It would be a less grand...

but still ambitious... tour.

Yet the Voyager team

wasn't ready to give up

on going farther.

As they assembled the spacecraft

in a giant hangar,

some of them kept a secret goal alive.

[sounds of light turning on]

KRIMIGIS:

We knew right from the get-go

that we were going to try

as hard as we could

to extend the mission

to go to Uranus and Neptune.

KOHLHASE:

We designed that in from the beginning.

We knew that we were endowing

Voyager with the option

if the chance was there to use it.

[percussion kicks in as music continues]

JOHN CASANI:
We didn't want to

build anything into the design

that would have prevented us

from going further.

So, it was a mission

within a mission, yeah.

[heartbeat, bottle falls,

water splashes]

BELL:
A group of scientists

and visionaries realized

that these spacecraft

would leave the solar system.

They figured don't let

this opportunity pass,

you're going to throw a bottle

into the ocean.

Put a message in it.

[high pitched string music begins]

NARRATOR:
What would we

want to tell intelligent aliens

about our planet?

What would we want

to tell them about us?

The driving force behind the message

was the astronomer Carl Sagan.

WATERS:
Would you expect someone

to find this record out there?

Is there something out there?

CARL SAGAN:

Well, nobody knows.

One of the great unsolved questions

is whether we're alone or whether...

JON LOMBERG:

Carl Sagan has become probably

the best-known scientist

of the late 20th century.

He was a working scientist,

he played a key role

in many of the NASA missions

to the planets,

including the Voyager one.

He was one of the scientists

on the Voyager imaging team,

but he also was the astronomer

who as much as any one person

made the study of

extraterrestrial life credible.

CARL SAGAN:

A comment by Thomas Carlyle,

a somewhat crusty old fellow

who upon thinking about the stars said,

"A sad spectacle.

If they be inhabited, what

a scope for misery and folly.

If they be not inhabited...

what a waste of space."

[laughter]

CASANI:

Carl Sagan was a good friend of mine,

and I called him up and said,

"Hey, would you be willing to undertake

to come up with something

for us to put

on the Voyager spacecraft?"

He says, "Yes, sure."

And he told me he could do it

for 25,000 bucks,

so I authorized him

to go ahead and do it,

and I sort of was hands-off

at that point.

BELL:
The Golden Record

followed in the footsteps

of a project called the Pioneer plaque.

CASANI:
The Pioneer spacecraft

had some line drawings

of a male and female form,

and some people went absolutely bonkers.

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