The Farthest Page #2
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.
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 tobuild anything into the design
from going further.
So, it was a mission
within a mission, yeah.
[heartbeat, bottle falls,
water splashes]
BELL:
A group of scientistsand visionaries realized
that these spacecraft
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 wewant 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 someoneto find this record 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
but he also was the astronomer
who as much as any one person
made the study of
extraterrestrial life credible.
CARL SAGAN:
who upon thinking about the stars said,
"A sad spectacle.
If they be inhabited, what
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 Recordfollowed in the footsteps
of a project called the Pioneer plaque.
CASANI:
The Pioneer spacecrafthad some line drawings
of a male and female form,
and some people went absolutely bonkers.
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