Collection: Pioneer Collection

HUMANITY'S FIRST POSTCARD INTO THE VOID

Before Voyager carried its golden mixtape into the stars, NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 missions led the way—each equipped with a small gold-anodized aluminum plaque. Designed in 1972 by Carl Sagan, Linda Salzman Sagan, and Frank Drake, this plaque was humanity’s first attempt at sending a visual introduction to any extraterrestrials who might intercept our hardware and possess both curiosity and an advanced understanding of line art.

The plaque depicts two human figures, a map of our location relative to 14 pulsars, and the silhouette of the spacecraft itself—essentially a cosmic “You Are Here” sign with a built-in physics quiz. Minimalist by interstellar standards, but scientifically rigorous and surprisingly elegant.

Now traveling far beyond the orbit of the outer planets, the Pioneer probes continue their silent trajectory outward, bearing this concise yet ambitious gesture of contact.

This collection honors this pioneering message with precision-crafted designs inspired by the plaque’s iconic engravings—an enduring symbol of our desire to say hello to the universe, ideally without causing an intergalactic diplomatic incident.