Vote for the #MessageToVoyager
Join NASA in celebrating the Voyager mission’s 40 years of exploring space. Inspired by the messages of goodwill carried on Voyager’s Golden Record, you’re invited to help choose a short, uplifting #MessageToVoyager and all that lies beyond it. Vote for your favorite message by 5 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, Aug. 29. NASA will beam the winning message into interstellar space on Sept. 5, 2017—the 40th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch.
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From the stars we came, and to the stars we return.
All of us are behind you, and ahead of you is everything.
We offer friendship across the stars. You are not alone.
You carry our hopes and dreams to the stars
Solar winds at your back, the stars shall light your way.
Eres el pasado viajando al futuro. (You are the past traveling to the future)
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.
When we work together, we can do great things.
Keep exploring, we'll catch up to you one day.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
How were #MessageToVoyager posts submitted?
- Messages could have a maximum of 60 characters (A-Z, 0-9, spaces and punctuation)
- Submissions were tagged #MessageToVoyager
- Messages were posted to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+ or Tumblr
- Privacy settings on submission posts must have been public to be considered
- Submissions were received by 11:59 p.m. PDT on Aug. 15, 2017
- JPL, NASA and the Voyager team selected their top picks
- The public will choose the winning message by poll on this page from these top picks
- NASA will beam the winning message through space toward Voyager 1
What’s noteworthy about the Voyager mission?
- Voyager is the longest continuously operating space mission ever
- Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object ever
- Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space
- Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to fly by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- Both are the first spacecraft able to detect their own problems and take corrective action
- More about how the Voyagers blazed trails
#MessageToVoyager Social Media Campaign Timeline
| August 1 | Kickoff; tag submissions #MessageToVoyager |
| August 15 | Submissions due |
| August 23 | Public voting opens |
| August 29 | Public voting closes |
| September 5 | #MessageToVoyager transmission |
| September 6 | #MessageToVoyager arrives in interstellar space in the vicinity of Voyager 1 |
