text: what is the thing called that the nasa sent to space? it wasn't too long ago that nasa sent something up in space with voice recordings of the world, images of earth and its people, and some other stuff.  they hope that it will land some other planet or it will be discovered by intelligent beings outside of our universe.  what was it called? it is voyager 1 and 2. they are still sending messages to earth and they are at the edge of our solar system. the launch was somewhere in the `70, the second a few months after the first.