Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Voyager Golden Record project was the result of an official NASA committee chaired by famed astrophysicist, Carl Sagan, then ...

And, now, the master audio behind the record can be yours for somewhere between $400,000 – $600,000. That's quite a lot for what's essentially a tape reel of a seemingly random selection of songs and ...

Louis Armstrong performing "Melancholy Blues," Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, and panpipes from Peru are etched among the cacophony of Earth sounds on the gold-plated records attached to Voyager 1 ...

"The undertaking of the Golden Record reflects the incredible optimism, fascination and humility when faced with the great unknown of the universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The call of a humpback whale, a Navajo night chant and the brain waves of a woman falling in love… these are just some of the sounds recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, the phonograph time capsule ...

In the 1970s, NASA asked astronomy professors Carl Sagan and Frank Drake to create a record synopsizing humankind to send into space with the Voyager 1 and 2. It could now be sent to your home, too. A ...