NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

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The Voyager Golden Record project was the result of an official NASA committee chaired by famed astrophysicist, Carl Sagan, then working at Cornell University.The team overseen by creative ...

Yet both copies of the Golden Record – each launched in 1977 aboard NASA's two Voyager spacecrafts – also contain some contents that are starting to show their age.

Carl Sagan's personal copy of the Voyager Golden Record contains 27 pieces of music and 22 minutes of sound meant to capture the beauty of life on Earth. When you purchase through links on our ...

Elon Musk posted on X that he has a Voyager golden record. That got me thinking, so I called NASA to find where the original copies went. Two golden records went to space on the twin Voyager ...

Both Voyager spacecraft carry a copy of the Golden Record. The record's protective cover, with instructions for playing its contents, is shown at left. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

They consisted of two golden-plated phonograph records that contained audio and images designed to portray what life on Earth was all about, one placed aboard each Voyager spacecraft in 1977. The ...

The Golden Record, seen here with its aluminum engraved cover (at left), was mounted on each of NASA's two Voyager probes as a message to anyone who came across them in the future. (Image credit ...

Sent to space aboard NASA’s twin Voyager probes, the records were designed as the first recorded interstellar message from humankind to potential intelligent life in the cosmos.