The Making of the Voyager Golden Record

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The Golden Record Cover
A round gold plate featuring diagrams that explain how to play a phonograph record and the location of Earth.
The Voyager Golden Record.
A golden record album with The Sounds of Earth United States of America, Planet Earth and etched with "To the makers of music, all worlds, all time."
Components of the Voyager Golden Record on May 10, 1977.
Three men display the unfinished components of the Golden Record, the cover, the spacecraft mounting bracket and the record.
Voyager Golden Record recording session on June 29, 1977.
A man holds up two shiny metal record albums.
Voyager Golden Record recording session on June 29, 1977.
A woman dips a record in liquid.
The making of the Voyager Golden Record during a recording session on June 29, 1977.
A man guides a golden record through a manufacturing process.
The JVC Cutting Center in Boulder, Colorado, cut the Golden Record lacquer masters, which were then sent to the James...
The James G. Lee recording studio is a white one story building.
The Voyager Golden Record recording session on June 29, 1977.
A person rinses off a record disc marked JPL.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977
A man examines a polished album-sized disc.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man's face is reflected in a album-sized disc.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record ion July 28, 1977.
A woman inspects the Voyager Golden Record with a microscope.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A woman wearing white gloves cleans a one of the discs in the Voyager golden record. A golden record is in the foreground.
Producing the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A woman examines a disc under a microscope. One of the Voyager Golden Records is in the foreground.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man's face is reflected in the shiny Golden Record cover.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man works with the Golden Record in a machine shop.
Manufacturing parts for the Golden Record assembly on the Voyager spacecraft.
A man in a machine show shapes a metal mounting bracket with machine tools.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man dips the golden record into a sink-sized vat of chemicals.
A man lifts the Voyager Golden Record from a sink-sized chemical vat.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A woman attaches a wire loop to the Voyager Golden Record for dipping into a chemical vat.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man examines the Voyager Golden Record
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man in a lab holds up the Voyager Golden Record.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man attaches mounting brackets to the Voyager Golden Record.
Production of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man inspects the final Voyager Golden Record.
An image from the Voyager Golden Record recording session on June 29, 1977.
A man places a silver disc the size of a record in a tray.
As NASA's two Voyager spacecraft travel out into deep space, they each carry a small American flag and a Golden...
A man holds an American Flag over the Voyager Golden Record in a cleanroom. The completed Voyager Spacecraft is in the background.
Mounting of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
A man carefully places the golden record next to its cover in a NASA cleanroom.
Mounting of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
Two men in white cleanroom suites attach the golden record to the side of the Voyager spacecraft.