![]() They launched a Kickstarter campaign last year to raise money for the project, asking for $200,000 to make 2,000 sets. They teamed up with Lawrence Azerrad, a graphic designer who has worked on album covers for Miles Davis, Sting, and others. ![]() Tim Daly, a manager at San Francisco’s Amoeba Music, suggested to Pescovitz that they try to release it on vinyl. ![]() The lack of a vinyl version, even in the days of digital, seemed like a missed opportunity. The record’s contents previously appeared on a CD-ROM in 1992, and about two years ago NASA uploaded the nature sounds and greetings on SoundCloud, without the music. Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. “When you’re seven years old and you hear that there’s a group of people who are creating a phonograph record that’s actually a message to extraterrestrials and attaching it to two space probes and launching it into the solar system and beyond-it sparks the imagination,” Pescovitz said. Pescotivz remembers hearing about the Voyager launch as a kid in 1977. The records were co-produced by David Pescovitz, a research director at the nonprofit Institute for the Future and a partner and editor at the website Boing Boing. The set contains three LPs and a book of the photos that were encoded in the original record. Using audio from the original tapes from the 1970s, a small team in California has put the Golden Record on vinyl for the first time. “You do understand our concern about the matter of highly valuable mementos being given to individuals,” the note read.įorty years later, the Golden Record is now on vinyl, and can be ordered online for $98. When Sagan wrote NASA in 1978 asking if he could receive one as a keepsake, the agency’s administrator sent back an apologetic message saying no. ![]() Even Carl Sagan, who led the record’s production, couldn’t get a copy. The dozen extra copies that remained were distributed to mostly NASA facilities. Two copies of the gold-plated copper record left Earth on Voyager 1 and 2, the first of which eventually left the solar system. The target audience for the contents-popular songs, sounds from nature, photographs, spoken greetings in dozens of human languages and one whale language-was, and still is, an alien civilization capable of deciphering the instructions on the cover to learn about one small world in the universe. The Voyager Golden Record was never really intended for human consumption. ![]()
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