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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

There is a matter of some debate as to whether the two Voyager probes have actually left the solar system, an where the "edge" of the solar system actually is. Both are beyond the orbit of Pluto, but have not passed beyond the vaguely-defined Kuiper Belt, and the two probes are just approaching the heliopause, the boundary layer between the solar wind and the broader currents of interstellar space.

But it seems likely that however that boundary is defined, the two Voyager probes either were or will be the first man-made objects to pass it.

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