The One Who Holds the Whole Story

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 carrying a golden record etched with greetings in 55 languages, the sound of a mother's heartbeat, and music from Beethoven to Blind Willie Johnson. Carl Sagan and his team wanted to say across the cosmos, "We existed. We mattered." It was beautiful and brave — and heartbreakingly limited. That record captured a single frozen moment of who we were but could say nothing about who we would become.…