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 ...

Each golden record measures 12 inches in diameter ... protective aluminum case − is bolted to the side of Voyager's bus housing that contains its electronics and instruments.

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.