Bolted to the side of each of the two Voyager spacecraft is a gold-plated copper phonograph record, sealed in an aluminum case and meant to survive for a billion years. When Voyager 1 launched in 1977 ...
The Voyager Golden Record is usually described as a message: music, greetings, images, Earth sounds, and diagrams sent outward on two spacecraft launched in 1977. But one of its most careful details ...
On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat still while medical sensors recorded the electrical activity of her heart, brain, eyes and muscles. She was making a physiological portrait for the Voyager Golden ...