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 ...

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 ...

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 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

In 1977, just before the Voyager mission launched, a committee led by astronomer Carl Sagan was working to create the Golden Record: a 12-inch gold plated copper disk that would carry messages ...

The father-daughter team of Ken and Keli Chaffin successfully decoded the message in July of 2024 by running simulations of ...

Robleto’s film, “Ancient Beacons Long for Notice,” is the third in a trilogy, and is centered on the Voyager Golden Records.

Golden Record 2.0, a project created by students ... Copies of the record were placed on NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 probes and ...

Voyager 2 did the same in 2018 ... they have bolted to their sides a kind of archive of life on Earth called the “Golden Record.” An actual golden LP, it was conceived by the astronomer ...

When Voyager 1 and 2 launched into space in 1977, each carried on board a golden record — an interstellar collection of human sounds and images meant to represent life on Earth for any alien ...

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off. NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft were originally designed for a four-year ...