Voyager Interstellar Record Collection, 1976-1977.

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Voyager Interstellar Record Collection, 1976-1977.

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NASA placed a message aboard Voyager 1 and 2, a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of planet Earth to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a 12 inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. He and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras plus spoken greetings from Earth-people in 55 languages and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim. Part of the collection consists of eight 14 inch instantaneous metal core master recording disks mounted in an aluminum shipping container. The records are made of a lacquer vinyl exterior with a copper-plated interior. The collection also includes eighty 8 inch by 10 inch color photographic prints, one hundred-thirteen 3 1/2 inch by 5 inch color photographic prints and twelve 2 inch by 2 inch color slides. The photographs and slides show various wide and narrow angle images of the manufacturing process of the "Golden Record" for the Voyager spacecraft. Also, some of the photographs and all the slides depict the images of Earth, which form part of the contents of the Golden Record.

0.3 cubic ft. (12 folders)8 Metal Core Master Recording Disks (14 in.)1 Aluminum Shipping Container (37 x 37 x 6 cm.)

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