Voyager Golden Record
1977 · Work
Carl Sagan's committee curates Earth's mixtape — Bach, Chuck Berry, greetings in 55 languages, a heartbeat — now more than 25 billion kilometres out and still leaving.
On these timelines: Spaceflight, Master, Arts and Thoughts
More from Spaceflight
- Apollo 8 orbits the Moon (1968)
- First Space Shuttle flight (1981)
- Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket (1926)
- Apollo 17: the last Moon landing (1972)
- V-2: the first successful A-4 launch (1942)
- Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation (1903)
- Shenzhou 5: China's first astronaut (2003)
- Mir space station (1986)
Around 1977
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)