The cover of the Golden Record shows a map of pulsars, for aliens to know where we sent this probe from, as well as how to ...

During his work on several historic missions, Casani rose through a series of technical and management positions, making an ...

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

Cornell is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Voyager spacecraft launch with a three-day multimedia exhibition this weekend highlighted by a rare Golden Record cover never before put on ...

Each golden record measures 12 inches in diameter and is made of gold-plated copper. The aluminum cover is electroplated with an ultra-pure source of uranium-238 that a recipient, theoretically ...

You may already know that NASA sent a golden record into space, ... Voyager 2 became the second in November 2018, ... The record is protected by an aluminum cover electroplated with uranium-238.

Voyager 1 is now some 15 billion miles away from Earth. ... Each probe is equipped with a metallic album cover containing a Golden Record, ...

Ann Druyan, creative director on the Voyager golden discs, reflects on the two spacecraft’s epic journeys—and on Carl Sagan, the love of her life. This cover was designed to protect the ...

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.

Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2018 and has the distinction of being the only spacecraft to have explored Uranus and Neptune. The 'golden record' on board Voyager ...