This was a different sort of book that I found at a library sale a year or two ago. I think I had seen it at library sale once and passed it over but when back a month or so later was still there & decided to pick it up. This is a book that sounds interesting but was never sure if it would be. Once I started reading though I was hooked. The 2 Voyager satellites that were launched in 1977--I was 8 at time so don't really remember this--had an album attached. This books talks about the album that was to be an introduction to earth for any space aliens that might find the Voyager way out in outer space. One side of the album was music and the book talks in great detail how decisions were made on the music and trying to find a mix of music from around the world and back in history. The flip side would have photos and statements. I still don't understand how photos were embedded in the album but the book went into detail on this too but was basically over my head. Carl Sagan was the main person on this, he was one tasked to do this & he put together a group to get it done. Lucky for them it stayed mostly as a self contained group because as book pointed out once word got out to Congress and/or public everyone would want input and likely been bogged down to where nothing would have gotten done. They had a tight time frame and their ability to locate people to do the different tasks was pretty amazing in itself.
The book itself was really interesting to me at the beginning because just thinking about this task was fun. The book did get bogged down with the details in tech & space science some but still overall was interesting and fun read.
There are no copies in PBS system but I also want to avoid going to post office this time of year so will probably wait to post until January or later.
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