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The vinyl frontier : the story of the NASA's interstellar mixtape / Jonathan Scott.

by Scott, Jonathan.

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Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020.

Voyager Project.

Sound recordings -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Music and technology -- United States -- History.

9781472956101 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Story of the NASA's interstellar mixtape

288 p. ; 20 cm.

Jonathan Scott is a writer, record collector and astronomy geek. He received his first telescope aged eight, using it to track Halley's Comet in 1986. Having followed Voyager's planetary fly-bys throughout his childhood, he first got to write about the missions in 2004. Jonathan has written for Record Collector magazine, edited books about Prince, Cher and the San Francisco psych explosion, and penned articles on Nirvana, the Pogues, the Venga Boys, Sir Patrick Moore and Sir Isaac Newton in a variety of magazines. If he'd been in charge of the Voyager Golden Record, aliens would assume humanity had three chords.

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

"In 1977 a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important mixtape ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another -- it was from Earth to the cosmos. When NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets, they knew the ultimate fate of these plucky probes would be to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy outcome in mind, NASA did something optimistic: they commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of the spacecraft, should they ever be found by aliens. So Carl Sagan made a record. A metal record. 'The Vinyl Frontier' tells the story of the Boyager Golden REcord, from fist phone call to final launch, when Voyage 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from the Summer of '77 to a distant future." --Back cover.

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