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Voyager probes carry the Golden Record

When: 20 Aug 1977
Where: Cape Canaveral, FL
Sources: 2 public sources

The Voyager Golden Record cover, launched aboard Voyager 2 in August 1977 NASA/JPL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Voyager 2, the first of NASA's two Voyager probes to launch, carried a gold-plated copper record with images, natural sounds, music and greetings in 55 languages, meant to tell any spacefaring finder about life on Earth. Voyager 1 followed weeks later with a copy.

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OfficialGolden Record Overview (opens in a new tab)NASA Science
OfficialVoyager 2 (opens in a new tab)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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