Engineers mount the Golden Record and secure its cover on Voyager 1. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY) The records also represent humanity's deliberate effort to put artifacts among the stars.

Engineers mount the Golden Record and secure its cover on Voyager 1. NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY. The records also represent humanity’s deliberate effort to put artifacts among the stars.

Both craft carry Golden Records: 12-inch phonographic gold-plated copper records, along with needles and cartridges, all designed to last indefinitely in interstellar space.

David Pescovitz: The golden record attached to the Voyager spacecraft (launched into space 40 years ago this month) is a reminder of what humanity at its best can achieve.

Voyager Golden Records 40 years later: Real audience was always here on Earth Our Voyagers allow us to broaden the definition of what it means to be human. By Jason Wright.

The Golden Record is basically a 90-minute interstellar mixtape — a message of goodwill from the people of Earth to any extraterrestrial passersby who might stumble upon one of the two Voyager ...

Voyager Golden Record Is Humanity's Soundtrack By Shane McGlaun Oct. 11, 2016 10:00 am EST Back in 1977 NASA launched a pair of spacecraft called Voyager I and Voyager II.

Forty years on, one of NASA’s most ambitious projects, the Voyager Golden Record, is the subject of a virtual reality film. Nobody has really been silly enough to allow a slow-witted pop critic ...

Thu, August 24, 2017 Published on Aug. 24, 2017 Published on 2017-08-24T14:19:07+07:00 compilation of music created as a way to communicate with alien life-forms, the Voyager Golden Record, which ...

The Voyager Golden Record wasn’t made for you. It was made for aliens. But if buying stuff that wasn’t originally intended for you isn’t what Kickstarter is for, I honestly don’t know what is.

Timothy Ferris, the producer of the Golden Record, which was launched aboard the twin Voyager probes, in 1977, describes how the project came to fruition.

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