And for the record, Voyager is a 46-year old system at a distance of now 24 billion kilometers, 22.5 light-hours, from the earth. While the time delay that distance implies must have made for ...

NASA launched two golden records into space on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 as a way to teach other civilizations about life on Earth if they ever came across the probes. The twin spacecraft ...

Voyager's Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, encoded with music, sounds and images from Earth. Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map.

29 at age 100 in his hometown of Plains, Ga., wrote a short message in 1977 for inclusion, as an image, on two golden records affixed to the Voyager spacecrafts. His words are among dozens of ...