VOYAGER (Human Lore)

A short historical piece about Voyager, one of humanity’s most ambitious journeys into space.

Launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets, the Voyager probes ultimately traveled farther than their original mission ever envisioned — past Jupiter and Saturn, toward the edge of the Solar System and eventually into interstellar space.

The episode follows that extraordinary journey while focusing on the idea at its heart: humanity sending a tiny machine farther from home than anything we had ever built, carrying the Golden Record — a small collection of sounds, images and music intended to represent life on Earth should someone, someday, find it.

Created for Human Lore, our short-form series exploring extraordinary stories, people and moments from history.