3 Days to Launch

Here is Countdown Poem #3 read by Montreal poet and translator Erin Moure who reads the poem first in English and then translates the poem into Galician and reads that version too.

4 Days to Launch

Here is Countdown Poem #4 read by Wayne Sawchuk, conservationist and advocate of the Muskwa-Kechika wilderness area in BC’s Northern Rockies, reading from his wilderness cabin at Mayfield Lake.

5 Days to Launch

Here is Countdown Poem #5 read by American science writer Dava Sobel who worked as science writer in the Cornell University news bureau in the Pioneer days and interviewed both Carl Sagan and Frank Drake about the image on the Pioneer 10 plaque. Dava also possesses a rare copy of the plaque, which cameos in this video.

6 Days to Launch

6 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #6 read by Dr. Matthew Shindell, poet and curator of planetary science and exploration at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.