This song is about a pair of twin spacecraft named Voyager 1 and 2 which were launched by NASA in August and September of 1977. It's written from my point of view, a human point of view, singing to one of the Voyagers as if it were a loved one on a journey far away.

The Voyagers' first mission was to explore the outer gas giant planets of the solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). However, they had a second phase to their mission once they were done exploring the outer planets: the Voyagers were destined to eventually leave the solar system all together and wander into the depths of interstellar space... forever.

Just six weeks before they were launched, scientists Frank Drake and Carl Sagan led a team that assembled a pair of golden records to put onboard the spacecraft. The contents of these records showcase what life on planet Earth is like through 116 encoded pictures on "our science, our civilization, and ourselves." Among many other things, it includes a 12 minute sound essay, a kiss, a baby's cry, an EGB audio recording of the brainwaves of a woman in love, and 90 minutes of the Earth's greatest hits - classical and folk, Eastern and Western, old and new. Also included are greetings from around the world in 55 different languages - 15 of which are featured in the middle of this song.

Each Voyager spacecraft is like a message in a bottle, cast into an infinitely vast and almost entirely desolate sea of darkness. We are unsure if anyone else is even out there to receive this message. If there is anyone out there, it is incredibly unlikely that they would come across one of the Voyagers. And it is even more unlikely that they would understand how to access the information on the records or translate the strange images and sounds into anything comprehensible - the hypothetical aliens who would receive the Voyager spacecraft would likely be very different from us. Still, perhaps anyone who comes across a Voyager spacecraft might at least understand the intentions and the spirit behind it. As Carl Sagan once wrote: "Each Voyager itself is a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us."

Of course, it is possible that no one will ever find one of the Voyagers which are built to last virtually forever.

Billions of years from now, long after humans have either evolved or become extinct, after our monuments and cities have eroded away, after the Sun expands into a Red Giant star and engulfs the Earth, far away from home the Voyager spacecraft will continue on, long lost love letters from a civilization and a species from a planet once called Earth.

- Aaron Chávez
(inspired by the writings of Carl Sagan)

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