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Voyager 40th anniversary posters

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https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/downloads/#gallery-infographics...

That is awesome. Only wish it didn't crop out current voyager 1 & 2 locations. And included Pluto for old time's sake.

The top part isn't to scale, so including current positions out past the planets in that wouldn't be very meaningful. They're on the bottom edge along with Pluto though!

Label for those numbers is a bit tiny at the left, they're millions of miles.

EDIT: Though I see it's got New Horizons headed on a trajectory to Pluto, it's just from ~2008 so it hadn't gotten there yet.

I had one of those printed up (the Grand Tour one). It looks absolutely beautiful.

What website/vendor did you use to print one?

I used printwild.co.za but they are focused on South Africa, so you'll have to find something for your country.

I have been using canvaspop.com for prints at home. They're affordable, more than they are great, but from the couch they look fine. I haven't done much experimenting with higher DPI, and all that stuff. Sending them a 72dpi HD jpg has been enough for a 20x16 print, about 40 bucks with a coupon code that is easy to google.

Any way of finding out who the artists that made these are?

I wish they had made a quality poster of the golden record.

Or a vinyl reprint for hipsters?

(Edit: this comment got severely downvoted, but I'm actually serious -- I think a reprint of the record would be a nice product considering the resurgence of record players.)

Damn, I guess I'm a hipster then since I'm on the kickstarter for the repress: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-gol...

Oh, the reprint already exists, very nice!

There's nothing wrong with being a hipster. I meant it as an affectionate term for people (like myself) who buy retro stuff at silly prices. I might get the Golden Record too.

Damn, that is some pure... Kickstarter. You have to poke around a minute or two to figure out that basically, getting the record on vinyl and not a bunch of related kipple costs a hundred bucks.

It's a cool idea but it's too bad about the cost.

It wasn't just the record (3 pieces of fully remastered vinyl at that), it also came with:

- Lithograph of Voyager Golden Record cover diagram, gold metallic ink on archival paper

- a Voyager trajectories turntable slipmat

- a hard cover book containing all images included on the original Voyager Interstellar Record, gallery of images transmitted back from the Voyager probes, and a new essay by Timothy Ferris, producer of the original golden record

- Voyager Golden Record diagram pin

It would be fun to get a copy of the record that flew and no kipple, for a reasonable price. That's all I meant.

Depending on your definition of reasonable price; http://www.ozmarecords.com/shop

(trivia: the replica is on 3 discs as the original was 16⅔rpm)

Thank you for this. Or I hate you. Not sure. Just another thing I want to spend money on now.

I already wanted the LEGO Saturn V....

https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-NASA-Apollo-Saturn-V-21309

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