 Now, wondering why we might want to send a song to Venus? Well, NASA may be aiming to serenade the aliens. So what better way than Missy Elliott rapping over I Can't Stand the Rain and Peebles' 1973 standout single. The space agency has done this before. One time in 2008, it beamed the lyrics for the Beatles' song Across the Universe to Polaris, the North Star.