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Chuck Berry and Carl Sagan

man holding guitar and another man gesturing standing at microphone
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: October 1, 2018

Chuck Berry (left) and Carl Sagan (right) at a Voyager 2 Neptune flyby celebration in August 1989.

Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only Rock 'n' Roll song on the Golden Records currently traveling into interstellar space aboard Voyagers 1 and 2.

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