by Carl Sagan
“Score of Quartet and Violin”
search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), 2.1, 2.2
“Searching for Interstellar Communications” (Morrison and Coconni)
“Seashell”
“Seashore”
Senegalese percussion
Sennacherib, King
“Sequoia and Snowflake”
Shakespeare, William, 5.1, 7.1
Shakhashiri, Amahl, 2.1, 3.1
Shepard, Tom, 1.1, 1.2
Shostakovich, Dimitri
Sidlin, Debby
Sidlin, Murry, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
“Silhouette of Male and Female”
Smithsonian Institution, 3.1, 5.1
“Snake River and Grand Tetons”
“Solar Location Map”
“Solar Spectrum”
“Solar System”
“Some Thoughts on Art, Extraterrestrials, and the Nature of Beauty” (Lomberg)
Soter, Steven
sounds of Earth: birds, hyena and elephant; chimpanzee; crickets, frogs; fire and speech; first tools, the; footsteps, heartbeats and laughter; herding sheep, blacksmith shop, sawing, tractor and riveter; kiss; life signs; Morse code; mother and child; mud pots; music of the spheres; pulsar; ships, horse and cart, train, truck, tractor, bus, automobile, F-111 flyby, Saturn 5 lift-off; tame dog; volcanoes, earthquakes and thunder; wild dog; wind, rain and surf
Spivak, Jonathan
Spohr, Louis
Sports Illustrated (magazine)
Stein, Gertrude
Stennis, John
Stevenson, Robert
Stravinsky, Igor, 1.1, 6.1
“Street Scene”
“Street Scene (Pakistan)”
“String Quartet”
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130 (Beethoven)
“Structure of the Earth”
“Summertime” (Gershwin)
Sun, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
“Sun”
“Sunset”
“Supermarket”
“Sydney Opera House”
Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Beethoven)
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tau Ceti
Tchaikovsky, Peter
“Tchakrulo”, 1.1, 6.1
Tempest, The (Shakespeare)
“Thai Craftsman and Elephant”
Thomas, Lewis, 1.1, 1.2
“Titan Centaur Launch”
Titan III-E Centaur launch boosters
Toulmin, Steven, 1.1, 1.2
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis
“Train”
“Tree and Daffodils”
“Tree Toad”
Turnbull, Colin
“Ugam”
unidentified flying objects
United Nations, 1.1, 1.2; 1.3, 2.1, 3.1
“UN Building, by Day and by Night”
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
Uranus, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Venus
Viking spacecraft
Vivaldi, Antonio, 1.1, 6.1
Vlad, Roman
Voyager interstellar record project: connection between mathematics and music; etched message on; foundations of; “greetings”, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1; Lomberg’s original suggested selections; mounting the instrument, 1.5, 1.6; music, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 5.1; nude photo, 1.10, 3.1, 3.2; official languages not represented on the Voyager spacecraft, 4.2, 4.3; picture sequences; press releases; revolutions per minute, 1.12, 6.1, 6.2; scientific consultants; in sequence (record music); sounds of Earth; suggestions and choosing the music, 1.14, 6.4; technology, 1.15, 1.16; world music, for outer space
Voyager mission; flight paths; management team; objective of; passage through the Jupiter and Saturn systems, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6; science teams
“Voyager’s Music” (Ferris)
Wagner, Richard, 1.1, 1.2
Waldheim, Kurt, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Wall Street Journal
“Waterhole”
Well-Tempered Clavier, The (Bach), 1.1, 6.1, 6.2
Williams, Martin
Willmann, Magdalene
“Woman with Microscope”
“World of Tomorrow, The” (New York World’s Fair of 1939), 1.1, 1.2
“X-Ray of Hand”
“Young Peddler, The”
About the Authors
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CARL SAGAN was chairman of the NASA Voyager Record Committee and executive producer of the record. He holds the David Duncan Chair as Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, where he is also director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. Sagan has played key roles in the Mariner, Viking, and Voyager missions to the planets; on Voyager he is a member of the Imaging Team. He is author of The Cosmic Connection, The Dragons of Eden (for which he received the Pulitzer Prize) and, with I. Shklovskii, Intelligent Life in the Universe.
F. D. DRAKE is director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (part of which is the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico) and Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. He is widely known for his belief that life exists elsewhere in the universe and is a leading authority on methods for the construction of messages and for the detection of extraterrestrial intelligent signals.
ANN DRUYAN was the creative director of the Voyager record and is the author of the recently published novel A Famous Broken Heart. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and elsewhere.
JON LOMBERG is an artist and writer whose major interests are astronomy (particularly interstellar communication and the study of galaxies) and music. He won the Boston Visionary Cell Award for painting in 1971. He illustrated Carl Sagan’s The Cosmic Connection, and his paintings appear at the Ontario Science Center and the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum.
TIMOTHY FERRIS, who served as producer of the Voyager record, is the author of a book on twentieth-century astronomy, The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe. He is professor of English at Brooklyn College and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine.
LINDA SALZMAN SAGAN has worked as an artist, film-maker and picture researcher. She helped design the Pioneer 10 plaque, and was assistant director of the award-winning documentary Two Ball Games.