In 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 took ... Test Range. Each Voyager spacecraft has 65,000 individual parts. Photograph taken on October 8, 1976. Lamination bonding of the golden record.

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.

Both carry the Golden Record, a collection of images and sounds selected by Carl Sagan and associates. The post Voyager 1 is sending binary gibberish to Earth from 15.1 billion miles away appeared ...