Voyager 1 and 2 are still hurtling through interstellar space well beyond our solar system after over 47 years and hundreds of millions of miles. While recent equipment issues hint at the historic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Carter, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 100, included the message in two golden records attached to the Voyager spacecrafts, which are charting the edge of space outside the heliosphere ...

wrote a short message in 1977 for inclusion, as an image, on two golden records affixed to the Voyager spacecrafts. His words are among dozens of images, greetings and music recordings meant to ...

Even in the outer limits, it works. Voyager 1 and 2 also have onboard a “Golden Record” in case they cross paths with an alien species, so though many believers think that “the aliens” are ...

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 ...

“We are saddened by the passing of President Jimmy Carter, who contributed to the Voyager Golden Record currently traveling through interstellar space,” NASA officials posted to the agency’s ...