Amahl Shakhashiri Drake is a Lebanese-American who, while working at Cornell University in the prelude to the launch of the Voyager probes in 1977, was recruited by Carl Sagan to contribute an Arabic greeting to the Voyager Golden Record, a phonographic account of humanity accompanying the Voyager probes. Her voice was the first recording of an Arab woman in outer space. She is the wife of the late famed astrophysicist Frank Drake, developer of the namesake Drake Equation and founding figure in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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