After years of effort, a group of music aficionados is finally bringing the full auditory experience of NASA's famous Voyager golden records to turntables all over the world.
NASA debuted its golden records — an album of messages, images, and audio meant as a record of Earth for aliens — before the nuclear-powered Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes launched in 1977.
Though they weren't the first golden rockets sent to deep space, the records are considered the most ambitious time capsules of their kind.
"The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said about the project on its website. "Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim."
But in more than 40 years, NASA has never released the full audio mix of its golden records to the public on vinyl. That feat has finally been pulled off by a label called Ozma Records, thanks to a Kickstarter project.
The company already shipped backers some 10,000 early copies, but the $98, three-vinyl-LP box set is now available for sale to the wider public. According to Ozma Records' sales page, the remastered golden records will begin shipping in mid-February.
read here - A record label is about to start shipping vinyl copies of NASA's famous golden records
Cool.
:deth:
NASA debuted its golden records — an album of messages, images, and audio meant as a record of Earth for aliens — before the nuclear-powered Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes launched in 1977.
Though they weren't the first golden rockets sent to deep space, the records are considered the most ambitious time capsules of their kind.
"The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said about the project on its website. "Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim."
But in more than 40 years, NASA has never released the full audio mix of its golden records to the public on vinyl. That feat has finally been pulled off by a label called Ozma Records, thanks to a Kickstarter project.
The company already shipped backers some 10,000 early copies, but the $98, three-vinyl-LP box set is now available for sale to the wider public. According to Ozma Records' sales page, the remastered golden records will begin shipping in mid-February.
read here - A record label is about to start shipping vinyl copies of NASA's famous golden records
Cool.
:deth:
