'A community of galactic civilizations': Jimmy Carter's decades-old message for aliens

A message of peace and hope penned in 1977 by the late President Jimmy Carter is attached to spacecrafts currently floating in interstellar space, intended for an audience of alien life.

Carter, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 100, included the message in two golden records attached to the Voyager spacecrafts, which are charting the edge of space outside the heliosphere created by the Sun.

The records are a time capsule of life on Earth in 1977, designed to tell extraterrestrials about the people, cultures and nature on our planet.