The Message to Aliens: Who Sent Earth’s Address for Humanity?
On 2 March 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 away from Earth. Attached to its body was a gold-anodized aluminium plaque showing a man, a woman, a map of the Solar System, and the location of Earth. The plaque was meant to tell another civilization where the spacecraft came from. There was no global vote before our address was sent into space. A small group—Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan—decided which i
On 2 March 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 away from Earth. Attached to its body was a gold-anodized aluminium plaque showing a man, a woman, a map of the Solar System, and the location of Earth. The plaque was meant to tell another civilization where the spacecraft came from. There was no global vote before our address was sent into space. A small group—Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan—decided which image would represent the human race.
On 2 March 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 away from Earth. Attached to its body was a gold-anodized aluminium plaque showing a man, a woman, a map of the Solar System, and the location of Earth. The plaque was meant to tell another civilization where the spacecraft came from. There was no global vote before our address was sent into space. A small group—Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan—decided which i
On 2 March 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 away from Earth. Attached to its body was a gold-anodized aluminium plaque showing a man, a woman, a map of the Solar System, and the location of Earth. The plaque was meant to tell another civilization where the spacecraft came from. There was no global vote before our address was sent into space. A small group—Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan—decided which i
On 2 March 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 away from Earth. Attached to its body was a gold-anodized aluminium plaque showing a man, a woman, a map of the Solar System, and the location of Earth. The plaque was meant to tell another civilization where the spacecraft came from. There was no global vote before our address was sent into space. A small group—Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan—decided which i
On 2 March 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 away from Earth. Attached to its body was a gold-anodized aluminium plaque showing a man, a woman, a map of the Solar System, and the location of Earth. The plaque was meant to tell another civilization where the spacecraft came from. There was no global vote before our address was sent into space. A small group—Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan—decided which i