Travelers Tales

Ever since the dawn of man, we have been fascinated with the prospect of leaving earth and investigating further into our universe then what we have always known. One of the first spacecraft to reach through our solar system was the voyager spacecraft. The voyager was a special spacecraft, normal solar powered propulsion methods wouldn't cut it for this craft, ( It would be too far away from the sun for this to work.) so the voyager was equipped with what was essentially a miniature nuclear reactor as a propulsion system. The Voyager had quite the journey on its way to the outer reaches of the universe, first it was shot around mars, using its gravity as a means of passive propulsion, next it was hurtled through the asteroid belt, (a lot less dangerous the movies would let you think) And finally Voyager reached what was its original goal, Jupiter. Voyager was originally meant to observe Jupiter and its various moons, on its way to the outer reaches of our solar system. After the craft observed what it was meant to on Jupiter, it began making its way past the gas giant planets, and finally passed Neptune on September 12, 2013, becoming the first spacecraft to pass into interstellar grounds.

There were other things that were interesting about Voyager then its means of transportation and the fact that it was a pioneer in its field, voyager was also the first spacecraft that was prepared to send a message to other beings aside from us. The contents of the voyager space craft,along with various other scientific equipment, was a golden record. This golden record contained Photos of earth and its life forms, a range of scientific information, and spoken greetings of the most prominent earth languages. Probably the most eerie of all the contents of this golden record, was the choice of music which they put on there. The song that they chose to represent us as the human race, alone with no one to accompany us besides ourselves, was classical music such as Beethoven and Bach. This is a kind of interesting message to send to aliens.(implying that they'll see it.) It could mean an entire range of things depending on how you interpret it, but i prefer to think that we were trying to tell them that not matter what happens and how advanced we become, we will always remember our past and where we came from.