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Indian Classical Music Still Resonates In Space As NASA’s Mission Voyager 2 Enters Its 40th Year
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Indian classical music continues to resonate in space, 11 billion miles away from the Earth, forty years after America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched Voyager-2.
According to the Times of India, Indian music was chosen by a Nasa-appointed committee chaired by Carl Sagan. In the book Murmurs Of Earth, published in the year 1978, Ann Druyan, Sagan's wife, recalls that Robert Brown, then executive director of the Centre For World Music in Berkeley placed "Jaat Kahan Ho" at the top of his list of world music for outer space.
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