Voyager's interstellar greeting shifts from nudity to silhouette
NASA's Voyager Golden Record team, led by Carl Sagan, briefly considered including a nude photograph of a man and a pregnant woman, but public backlash over the nude Pioneer plaque led to a silhouette image instead—a pure black outline showing a pregnant silhouette with the fetus visible inside, while a separate vertebrate-evolution diagram was approved. The record, carrying greetings, sounds, and images, was designed to endure for millions of years as humanity's interstellar message, but the nude depiction was ultimately rejected.