NASA 77

In 1977 NASA sends their «Golden Records» into the dark depths of space attached to Voyager 1 & 2.

With a durability of 500 million years, these objects are designed to give our still unknown alien friends impressions about life on earth.

Engraved in the grooves were greetings in 55 languages and pieces of music from Bach to Azeri bagpipes, from initiation songs in Central Africa to Blues & Rock’n’Roll, pictures of Jane Goodall with chimpanzees, Javanese temple dancers and Dutch cyclists before telescope bowls. Unfortunately, the former SS-Officer Kurt Waldheim is immortalized on it as secretary general of the UN – and one is left with an eerie feeling and the urge to rethink the curation of an imprint of our world by a small group of US-Americans.

Mashup of NASA’s contents on their Golden Records