NASA launched two golden records into space on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 as a way to teach other civilizations about life on Earth if they ever came across the probes. The twin spacecraft ...

Voyager's Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, encoded with music, sounds and images from Earth. Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map.

Each Voyager spacecraft has 65,000 individual parts. Photograph taken on October 8, 1976. Lamination bonding of the golden record. The 12-inch records were mastered in lacquer, cut from copper ...

Hurtling ever deeper into space are two very special Golden Records, sent to the outer solar system aboard the Voyager probes. As well as 115 images, a variety of natural sounds and greetings in ...

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

The golden records are phonographs containing images, words, and music meant to explain human life to aliens. Each Voyager probe has a copy. In the meantime, Dodd isn't quite ready to say goodbye ...

Voyager 1 has its own time capsule - a gold record on board - which contains samples of music, photographs and human speech. It was put on the craft in case any alien life form was ever to come ...

In the distant future, the two Voyager spacecraft will still be floating in space, awaiting discovery by an alien civilization for whom the messages on the Golden Records were intended.

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Voyager 2 is more than 12.3 billion miles ... Each spacecraft carries a Golden Record with Earth's sounds, pictures, and messages intended to communicate a story of our world to extra-terrestrials.