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earth's family albums produced by the great american astronomer carl sagan were launched into space 40ears ago. as alex wagner reports time capsules meant for alien ears are now available to humans. >> and we have liftoff. >> since blasting off more than 40 years ago, the voyager 1 and 2 space craft have traveled billions of miles leaving the solar system far behind. but before they left on their never-ending journey, nasa scientists equipped both probes with these, identical gold-plated records containing photographs, along with two hours of sounds from nature, spoken messages in 55 languages. >> hello from the children of planet earth. >> and a variety of music from bach to chuck berry. the idea, if alien space explorers ever discover the voyager probes, they could learn the story of planet earth. >> i send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. >> reporter: now those sights and sounds can be seen and heard back here on tera firma. oz ma records has remastered the audio, published the images and is offering it to collectors as a boxed set. >> throughout the project we have

a picture that was taken because carl sagan lobbied endlessly to have it taken. it was reluctance to take it because to look homeward was to look back to the sun, which meant the possibility that the lenses would burn out, but as carl kept pointing out, we're not going to take any more pictures and he knew that it would be important for us to see our home planet, not as the framed filling apollo image which was such a sea change in the history of our civilization. i remember seeing the earth from space for the first time and seeing it fill the frame and believing for the first time in a visceral way, yes, we live on a world that moves through space, but this is what we really need to take to our hearts right this moment, because that's not the framed filling center of the universe image of the earth but our true circumstances. we live on a one pixel world in the scale of the solar system, forget about the scale of the galaxy, forget about the scale of the hundred billion galaxy. forget about part of the universe that we have yet to apprehend. we only understand a

worked on a soviet french mars mission back in the late eighty's and met a lot of famous people like carl sagan yeah and i became a bit of a soviet expert and when the soviet union dissolved in one thousand nine hundred one i was actually there. i knew my program was done i came back to the u.s. and was considered a bit of a persona non-grata because i'd worked with the french and the soviets and then i then i got recruited by our intelligence agencies to go back into russia put money in to stop the brain drain in the in the materials that were being sold of the koreans in the in the iranians and all these rogue nations now the united states government has gotten out of the aerospace industry and basically turned it over to the private sector. is that good well you know the private sector has a motivation of doing things and making money at it which is an inherently understandable motivation i would submit to you the government doesn't have those same understandable motivations furthermore it takes your money and my money as taxpayers and misuses it so in my view the military industrial complex

carl sagan thought of everything. >>> that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday.e morning news and of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm michelle miller. >>> marino pulls out after a 60 minutes investigation. >> congressman marino had been nominated to be the next drug czar. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> total disbelief. >> also tonight, the president draws fire. >> it is this bizarre conduct. >> to refuse obligations and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked spurious nationalism. >> and vows to fight back. >> and it won't be pretty. >> ford says it will fix explorers but will not recall them. >> and, they're not waiting for the torch to be passed, this generation is grabbing it. >> i mean, governor, come on. right? why not. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this the cbs "overnight news." >>> pennsylvania congressman tom marino withdrew as president trump's nominee to be drug czar. this follows a "60 minute's" report that revealed his role in legislation that made it easier to di

produced by the great american astronomer, carl sagan launched into space 40 years age as alex wagners made for alien ears are now available to humans. >> wind have liftoff. since blasting off more than 40 years ago the voyager one and two spacecraft traveled billions of miles leaving the solar system far behind. but before they left on their neverending journey. nasa scientists equipped both with these. gold plated record. and photographs with two hours of sound from nature. spoken messages. 55 languages. and hello from the children of planet earth. and a variety of music. from bach. to chuck berry. the idea if they ever discovered the voyage ear froebs they could learn the story of planet earth. >> i sent greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. now the sights and sounds scan be seen and heard, back here on terra firma. records has remastered the audio, published the images and offering tight collectors as a boxed set. throughout the project, we have been in close touch with, with all of the people who created the original voyager record. it was really important for us, to,

earth's family albums produced by the great american astronomer, carl sagan were launched into space0 years ago. as alex wagner reports, time capsules meant for alien ears are available to humans. >> and we have liftoff. >> reporter: since blags off more than 40 years ago, the voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft traveled billions of miles. leaving the solar system far behind. but before they left on their never ending journey, nasa scientists equipped both probes with these. identical gold plated records containing photographs along with two hours of sounds from nature. spoken messages in 55 languages. [ speaking spanish ] >> hello front children of planet earth. >> and variety of music from bach. ♪ ♪ to chuck berry. ♪ ♪ the idea if alien space explorers ever discovered the voyager probes they could learn the story of planet earth. >> i sent greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. >> now those sights and sound can be seen and heard back here on terra firma. osma records, remastered the audio, published images and offering to collectors as a boxed set. >> throughout the project we hav