| 1 | Jimmy Carter , Voyager Spacecraft Statement by the President . |
| 2 | July 29 , 1977 |
| 3 | Note_: The statement has been placed in a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Voyager spacecraft which is scheduled to be launched August 20 . |
| 4 | The statement is recorded in electronic impulses which can be converted into printed words . |
| 5 | This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America . We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth . |
| 6 | We human beings are still divided into nation states , but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization . We cast this message into the cosmos . It is likely to survive a billion years into our future , when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed . |
| 7 | Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy , some -- perhaps many -- may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations . |
| 8 | If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents , here is our message : |
| 9 | 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 . We hope someday , having solved the problems we face , to join a community of galactic civilizations . This record represents our hope and our determination , and our good will in a vast and awesome universe . |