You Can Now Get Your Own Copy of the Voyager 'Golden Record'
For more than 40 years , the spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have taken the music , give-and-take , images , and sounds of Earth profoundly into space thanks to the Golden Record , a copy of which was sent into distance with each investigation . This mix tape — a 12 - in , gold - plated Cu platter — from us to the universe was famously put together by a team lede byCarl Saganthat was tasked with make a shot of our world that foreigner could understand — as long as they bring their own phonograph record thespian , as the probes , set in motion in 1977 , lack them ....