Editing Voyager Golden Record (section)

== Background ==
The ''[[Voyager 1]]'' probe is currently the [[List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System|farthest human-made object]] from [[Earth]]. Both ''Voyager 1'' and ''Voyager 2'' have reached interstellar space, the region between stars where the [[Interstellar medium|galactic plasma]] is present.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html |title=NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space |date=September 12, 2013 |publisher=NASA |access-date=April 15, 2014 |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611233345/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Like their predecessors ''[[Pioneer 10]]'' and ''[[Pioneer 11|11]]'', which featured a simple [[Pioneer plaque|plaque]], both ''Voyager 1'' and ''[[Voyager 2]]'' were launched by [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration|NASA]] with a message aboard—a kind of [[time capsule]], intended to communicate to extraterrestrials a story of the world of [[human]]s on Earth.<ref name = "Voyager - Golden Record"/>

{{quote|This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. |[[President of the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]]}}