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Voyager Golden Record
The 1977 gold-plated phonograph record attached to each Voyager spacecraft — a message to any future intelligence that might find them, curated by Sagan and Druyan as humanity's self-portrait at cosmic scale.
The Voyager Golden Record is a gold-plated copper phonograph record affixed to each of the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth — greetings in fifty-five languages, musical selections from many cultures and eras, natural sounds, and 116 encoded images. They are intended for any intelligence that might encounter the spacecraft in the hundreds of millions of years ahead, as Voyager continues into interstellar space long after Earth and human civilization have disappeared. Sagan chaired the selection committee. Ann Druyan served as creative director. The Sagan volume treats the record as a physical instantiation of the CETI protocols — humanity's attempt to communicate with a genuinely alien intelligence across timescales that dwarf the entire history of recorded human civilization.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The record was produced under severe constraints: six months from first concept to final production, a 12-inch diameter that