20 Bizarre things that were ever sent to space by humans.

5 min readJul 11, 2021

“Everybody ready to say goodbye to our Solar System?”, seems familiar? those are the words told by Cooper in the movie named Interstellar.

By reading this blog am very sure you will experience the same feelings as Cooper. So, people are you all ready to travel to an unimaginable world? Here are the 20 strangest things that were ever sent to space. Come on, let’s dive into the pool of space to explore.

1. Slime

We wouldn’t be surprised if they say we took a spaceship to space. But If you hear taking a slime? Pretty weird right? Yes, the people who traveled to outer space carried a slime, with which they can play around whenever they feel bored into the ship.

2. Tesla Roadster

Elon Musk is not only famous on the earth for the best production of tesla motors. But also carved away to space and made the history of sending his Roadster to space with a mannequin.

3. Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber

If you have ever watched Star Wars then lightsaber wouldn’t be a great surprise to you. The space team in 2007 carried this lightsaber and traveled around the earth.

4. Chips and A Pattie

We all would have eaten Chips and a Pattie in our day-to-day life whenever we wish to. Will you believe it if I say that it was delivered to space only with an air-filled hot balloon? To your surprise, this happened as a trial by the unique hull chip shop in the UK.

5. Humanity Star

As far as the name seems cool the origin also seems very interesting. In 2018, one of the giant satellites was sent to outer space as a symbol of showing fragile space in this universe.

6. Lego Figures

Don’t think too much, fix the one which popped in your mind at first. The astronauts also carried the most famous toys say Lego figures to outer space to grab many children’s attention towards learning and get knowledge in the field of space.

7. Chimpanzee

We would have learned about one chimpanzee named “Ham” in our social science during our childhood. This Ham was the first chimpanzee to enter the universe for the first time.

8. Sounds: Recordings

Let me ask you all one question, do you believe in aliens or any kind of exterritorial creature? It looks like even the scientists had those questions so, they have sent a sound recorder to record all the sounds in the space.

9. Laika

Sounds like a girl’s name, isn’t it? No, you are wrong. Laika is the very first dog to travel into space.

10. Pizza

No one in this world would hate the idea of having pizza. The love for pizza made one of the Russian astronauts take it into space in2001.

11. Space Burial

When we lose someone, we tend to bury them in the ground. But, Gene Roddenberry creator of the original “Star Trek” television series wanted to send his ashes to space. And this was done in 1992.

12. 3D printed

Nasa took measures in developing a 3Dprinted to capture the sound and shape of the laugh you give. And this epic invention was sent to space along with the astronauts in 2013.

13. Voyager Golden Records

As a token of a message to dedicate the diversity of the life on the earth in 1977 a gold-plated copper disk containing the sound and image in the form of a phonograph sent to space in 1977.

14. Amelia Earhart’s watch

What happens if you miss your important things while you go out? You will call someone to bring it back, isn’t it? That’s what happened when Amelia Earhart missed her watch to space and the same was given to her by other astronauts in the middle of space.

15. Cargo Tag

As a mark of the commencement, a small metal piece of cargo tag was taken to space in 2007.

16.Mercury Dime

A mercury dime was found in the last shuttle space from Atlantic open after 38 years late, this proves one among the astronauts would have taken it along with them to space.