The Voyager Golden Record — the mixtape of natural Earth sounds, spoken greetings in various languages, and human music from various cultures that NASA shot into space in 1977 for aliens to find — is pretty hard to get ahold of. Right now, there are only 12 copies in existence. One is aboard Voyager 1, which is currently sitting pretty in interstellar space; another is 10 billion miles away on Voyager 2; one was reserved for then-President Jimmy Carter; and the rest were distributed to various institutions and NASA centers. Even Carl Sagan, who spearheaded the project, didn’t manage to snag one. But now, thanks to a Kickstarter project headed by Boing Boing editor and Institute For The Future research director David Pescovitz, actual humans will be able to listen to it.

Pescovitz is teaming up with Amoeba Music manager Timothy Daly and graphic designer Lawrence Azerrad to reissue the Voyager Record remastered on gold vinyl (as opposed to the originals’ gold-plated copper disks, designed to withstand a billion years of space travel). The plan is to release the 3xLP set next year in time for the 40th anniversary of the Voyager launches, and the box set will cost $98 plus shipping. You can back the crowdfunding project here (it’s already met its goal) and check out a video along with the tracklist below.

Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition audio tracks:

