This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.

We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many — may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:

This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe

Space is nearly empty. There is virtually no chance that one of the Voyagers will ever enter another solar system — and this is true even if every star in the sky is accompanied by planets. The instructions on the record jackets, written in what we believe to be readily comprehensible scientific hieroglyphics, can be read, and the contents of the records understood, only if alien beings, somewhere in the remote future, find Voyager in the depths of interstellar space. Since both Voyagers will circle the center of the Milky Way Galaxy essentially forever, there is plenty of time for the records to be found — if there's anyone out there to do the finding.
We cannot know how much of the records they would understand. Surely the greetings will be incomprehensible, but their intent may not be. (We thought it would be impolite not to say hello.) The hypothetical aliens are bound to be very different from us — independently evolved on another world. Are we really sure they could understand anything at all of our message? Every time I feel these concerns stirring, though, I reassure myself. Whatever the incomprehensibilities of the Voyager record, any alien ship that finds it will have another standard by which to judge us. Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us.
But being much more advanced scientists and engineers than we — otherwise they would never be able to find and retrieve the small, silent spacecraft in interstellar space — perhaps the aliens would have no difficulty understanding what is encoded on these golden records. Perhaps they would recognize the tentativeness of our society, the mismatch between our technology and our wisdom. Have we destroyed ourselves since launching Voyager, they might wonder, or have we gone on to greater things?
Or perhaps the records wil

We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many – may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:

İki Voyager uzay aracı, yıldızlara doğru yol almaktadır şu anda. Herbirine altın kaplamalı bakır bir pikap plağı, bir kaset ve plak iğnesi bağladık. Plağın alüminyumdan mahfazasının üstüne de nasıl kullanılacağını yazdık. Genlerimiz hakkında, beyinlerimize ilişkin ve kitaplıklarımıza dair bilgiler verdik. Bu bilgileri, yıldızlararası uzay yolculuğuna çıkmayı düşünebilecek başka varlıklara yolladık. Yıldızlararası uzayda, vericileri çoktan susmuş Voyager’in varlığını farkedebilen bir uygarlık kuşkusuz bizden daha ileridir bilim alanında. O varlıklara kendimiz hakkında yalnızca bizde varolduğunu sandığımız özellikleri anlatmak, beyin kabuğunun önemini ve beyindeki limbik sistemi tanıtmak istedik. Mesajımızı alacak olanlar anlamasalar da, yeryüzü ülkelerinden altmış dilden selâm gönderdik. Balinaların seslerini de ekledik. Yerkürenin dört bir yanında birbirlerine karşı ilgi ve saygı gösteren, kendini öğrenime, araç gereç üretimine ve sanata adamış, zorluklara karşı meydan okuyan insanların fotoğraflarını derleyip gönderdik. Birkaç kültüre ait müziklerden bir buçuk saatlik bir derleme de yolladığımız paketin içinde. Bu müziğin bir bölümü, kozmik yalnızlığımızı, bunu giderme arzumuzu, Kozmos’daki öteki varlıklarla ilişki kurmak isteğimizi yansıtıyor. Aynı zamanda gezegenimizde hayatın başlangıcından öteki zamanlarda duyulmuş olabilecek seslerden, insan türlerinin evrimi ve son olarak patlak veren teknoloji dönemindeki seslere kadar kayıt yaptığımız plaklar da gönderdik. Balinalarınki gibi, enginliklere çığırılan bir sevgi şarkısıdır bu. Birçok mesajımız, belki de çoğu, çözümlenemeyecek, anlaşılamayacak, Ama yine de göndermiş bulunuyoruz. Çünkü denemek önemlidir. Bu anlayış ve coşkuyla Voyager uzay gemisine bir insanın düşüncelerini ve duygularını, onun beyninin, kalbinin, gözlerinin ve kaslarının elektriksel devinimlerini bir plağa kaydederek bunu da gönderdik. Bir bakıma, bir tek insanın, 1977 yılının Haziran ayında, düşüncelerini ve duygularını Kozmos’a yollamış bulunu

"It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built by the government (in partnership with that other bugaboo, academia). They came in at cost, on time, and vastly exceeded their design specifications — as well as the fondest dreams of their makers. Seeking not to control, threaten, wound, or destroy, these elegant machines represented the exploratory part of our nature set free to roam the Solar System and beyond. This kind of technology, the treasures it uncovers freely available to all humans everywhere, has been, over the last few decades, one of the few activities of the United States admired as much by those who abhor many of its policies as by those who agree with it on every issue. "Voyager" cost each American less than a penny a year from launch to Neptune encounter. Missions to the planets are one of those things — and I mean this not just for the United States, but for the human species — that we do best."

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder—and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe—a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.

It's a vehicle to share messages, it's a vehicle for change

Yes, he called Voyager “V’ger,” in reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But he’s not a Trekkie. Because “Trekkies are weird.

It's like luggage their language.

A traveller! I love his title. A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from ___ toward ___; it is the history of every one of us.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

The messenger is the message.” Of

Every car has a personality. Every car is trying to say something to the world.

we are all roamers of vast spaces and travellers in many ages.