The Pioneer Plaque

A gold-anodized map to Earth, bolted to two spacecraft, showing a man, a woman, and our address in the galaxy via pulsar directions.

Why we kept this

Carl Sagan's team had weeks to decide how to explain humanity to strangers, and this is what they landed on.

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