The Voyager I and Voyager II spacecraft left earth in 1977, on a mission
to capture fly-by photos of the planets as they made their way to
interstellar space. Mounted to each was a golden phonograph record
containing a mix of tribal, classical, and (at the time) contemporary
music, as well as greetings in 55 human languages, one whale language, a
mix of sounds heard on our planet, and over 100 images encoded in
analog. The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition
celebrates this historic event by letting you listen to the records
yourself. Housed in a cloth-covered box, the three translucent gold
vinyl LPs contain remastered versions of the audio recordings on the
originals, accompanied by a lithograph of the Golden Record cover
diagram, and a hardbound book filled with images from the original
message, photos the spacecrafts returned to earth during their journeys,
essays, and other ephemera.
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