In fact, NASA issued a series of LPs of Voyager sound recordings in the early 1990s, which are nowadays inexplicably out of print. Marketing the records at the time, NASA said: “Some of these sounds are hauntingly like human voices singing, giant Tibetan bowls, wind waves, birds and dolphins. Many are familiar in a way unique for each listener.”
The organisation also pointed out that as both Voyagers have now, like Elvis, left the solar system, “the sounds on these recordings will never be made again in our lifetime.” Which is a rather humbling thought, isn’t it?
So in honour of the 35th anniversary of these remarkable probes, and as an extra to tonight’s BBC4 doc, why not sit back, get into a meditative state of mind and listen to some truly out of this world music?