Not about important messages to the cosmos, but about more personal messages and marks:
Here are some missions that have included (or will include) submitted names from the public, with a link to something related: like registration, search, press release, or description:
Cassini
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/96/cdsign.html
Dawn
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_sto...es_install.asp
Deep Impact
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/index.html (not maintained)
Kepler
http://www.seti.org/kepler/names/
LRO Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php
Mars Polar Lander (failed)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/98/m98integ.html
MER Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit and Opportunity)
http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003/namequery.htm
New Horizons
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/certif...searchName.php
Phoenix
http://planetary.org/special/fromearth/phoenix
SELENE (Kaguya)
http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/event/selene/index_e.html
Stardust
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/
I think the Huygens probe did it. The cancelled 2001 Mars Lander did (and the names were transferred to the MER mission).
Topic
Project Gutenberg... has some discussion of names in space from 4 years ago, with some detail about the media.
Anyone know of more missions?
Edit: More about messages:
Wall Street Journal: Message in a Bottle
Quote:
By JASON FRY
Sending Messages Into Outer Space Has Changed Since Voyager's Day
[...] But even before New Horizons discovers anything, it raises a question we'll have to answer closer to home: What kind of messages should we accompany our space probes?
Such messages date back to Pioneers 10 and 11. Launched in 1973, these twin craft carried plaques designed to tell any beings who found them something about who we were and where we came from. Four years later, the Voyager probes included phonograph records carrying sounds and images of Earth. Those plaques and records are still out there, attached to spacecraft speeding through the silent dark of the solar system's outermost precincts.
[...]
[For the Huygens probe messages:] DeBeers donated diamond wafers and the "Portrait of Humanity" photo was taken, but Cassini went to Saturn without the message, which Mr. Lomberg says was scrapped amid NASA concerns about who'd get credit for the project and the fact that Fuji-Xerox had sponsored it.
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So, what did Huygens carry to Titan in the way of messages?
Ah, it looks like something less grand happened. Here's
ESA press release: Second space Christmas for ESA: Huygens to begin its final journey to Titan:
Quote:
Messages from earthlings and pop music heading to Titan
Before the mission was launched, ESA offered Europeans a unique opportunity to send a message to the unknown. Over 80 000 people wanted to share the excitement of this mission and wrote or drew a message that was engraved on a CD-ROM put on board the Huygens probe.
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A Portrait of Humanity (PDF) describes the cancelled Huygens diamond disk and offers thoughts about messages to spacecraft discoverers, by Jon Lomberg, who designed the Voyager record.
Edit: I forgot: Beagle II. Oops.