Voyager Golden SEALED Record 3xLP Gold Vinyl Box Set and symbolic diagram pin
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Description
NASA's Voyager Interstellar Record
Sealed box set.
Includes:
3LP + Book Box Set
140g Translucent Gold Vinyl
All of the Voyager Golden Record audio content, remastered from the original analog tapes
3 heavyweight jackets, gold ink on black, and poly-lined inner sleeves
Full-color 96-page softcover book containing all images encoded on the Golden Record, scanned from a set of the master slides; original essay by Timothy Ferris, bestselling science journalist and producer of the original Voyager Interstellar Record; gallery of breathtaking space photographs transmitted back from the Voyager probes
Gold foil print of Voyager Golden Record cover diagram on 12" x 12" archival paper
Voyager trajectories turntable slipmat, gold ink on black felt
Full-color plastic limited time digital download card for all audio contents (MP3 or FLAC formats)
Housed in a deluxe record box with pull-ribbon, gold ink on black
Comes with the Pin as seen in the pictures.
The enamel pin represents a exact replica of the symbolic diagram etched onto the actual aluminum protective cover of the 1977 NASA Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.
Voyager background
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, on a grand tour of the solar system and into the mysteries of interstellar space. Attached to each of these probes is a beautiful golden record containing a message for any extraterrestrial intelligence that might encounter it.
The Golden Record tells the story of our planet expressed in sounds, images, and science: Earth's greatest music from myriad peoples and eras, from Bach and Beethoven to Blind Willie Johnson and Chuck Berry, Benin percussion to Solomon Island panpipes. Natural sounds - birds, a train, a baby's cry, a kiss - are collaged into a lovely audio poem called "Sounds of Earth." There are spoken greetings in dozens of human languages - and one whale language- and more than 100 images encoded in analog that depict who, and what, we are.
Astronomer and science educator Carl Sagan chaired the Voyager Interstellar Record Committee that created this object, which is both an inspired scientific effort and a compelling piece of conceptual art. Astronomer Frank Drake, father of the scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), was the technical director, writer and novelist Ann Druyan was the creative director, science journalist and author Timothy Ferris produced the record, space artist Jon Lomberg was the designer, and artist Linda Salzman Sagan organized the greetings.
Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012. As of this writing, it's almost 21 billion kilometers away from Earth. Speeding along at 17 kilometers per second, it will take another 40,000 years before the spacecraft passes within 1.6 light-years of a star in the constellation Camelopardalis. The slightly slower Voyager 2 is at the outermost edge of our solar system, where the sun's plasma wind blows against cosmic dust and gas. Soon, it too will venture into interstellar space. We may never know whether an extraterrestrial civilization ever listens to the golden record. It was a gift from humanity to the cosmos. But it is also a gift to humanity. The record embodies a sense of possibility and hope. And it's as relevant now as it was in 1977.
The Voyager Interstellar Record is a reminder of what we can achieve when we are at our best - and that our future really is up to all of us.
Will be shipped in the sturdy box Ozma records used to send to customers in 2018. See picture.
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