50 Years Ago Space 50 years ago, Earth’s chances of contacting E.T. looked slim Excerpt from the February 24, 1973 issue of Science News Should aliens ever encounter NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, they’ll find the Golden Record (left, cover shown right), which is packed with sounds and images of Earth. JPL-Caltech/NASA Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Erin Garcia de Jesús February 24, 2023 at 7:00 am The chances of contacting extraterrestrial civilizations seem poor – Science News, February 24, 1973 The possibility of life … on other planets has stimulated many people’s imaginations…. In the Feb.