“To me, the Voyager Golden Record is a beautiful example of humanity and striving for world peace,” adds propulsion engineer ...

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 ...

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While a nation honors President Jimmy Carter with a state funeral and days of ceremonies in Washington, D.C., and his home ...

Nasa has picked up a "heartbeat" signal from its Voyager 2 probe after it lost ... Each spacecraft carries a Golden Record with Earth's sounds, pictures, and messages intended to communicate ...

A golden record is mounted on the outside of each ... the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook ...

Voyager's Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk ... It also establishes the 2-dimensional galactic plane—the plane in which the majority of our disc-shaped galaxy's mass lies.