The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft were launched in 1977 primarily for the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. They both are much farther away from Earth today than Pluto. NASA placed a message aboard Voyager, carried by a phonograph record consisting of a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing scenes, greetings, sounds and music selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The "Fairie Round" by Anthony Holborne was selected for inclusion on the Voyager 1 and 2 Golden Records. This lively dance is scored in five parts, and Holborne's title reads "Pavans, Galliards, Almains, and other short Aeirs both grave and light, in five parts, for Viols, Violins, and other Musical Wind Instruments." This arrangement for piano mirrors Holborne's own lute arrangement. It will be forty thousand years before the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft make a close approach to any other planetary system. "...the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet." Carl Sagan