Blind Willie Johnson and Voyager's Golden Record
Blues guitarist BlindWillie Johnson led a hardscrabble life, but in 1977, NASA's Voyager spacecrafts launched into space, carrying a golden record to introduce planet Earth to the cosmos, and one of his songs became the defining anthem.

Age range 9 to 12

Blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson led a hardscrabble life, but in 1977, NASA's Voyager spacecrafts were launched, each carrying a golden record to introduce planet Earth to the cosmos, and his song 'Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground' became the defining anthem. Weaving together elements of Johnson's biography with an account of how a team of astrophysicists, writers, and artists created the golden record for the Voyager mission, Jan Lower and Gary Kelley craft a tale that is itself A Song for the Cosmos.