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 ...

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But both Voyager 1 and 2 also carry a greeting to any form of life they may encounter called the Golden Record. In July, Voyager 2 also experienced a communication breakdown with mission control ...

And the Media Lab has also prepared a successor to Voyager 1’s Golden Record, which carried recordings of sounds from Earth; this smaller silicon version will bring a symbolic record of people ...

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.