So with the help of these "space people" we now have the technology to launch and guide our probe.

From buggy whips to space probes in one generation. Anybody that supposes we did this without outside help probably can't make a strong enough case to convince me.

So we get our probe launched in the next decade and it takes a couple more decades for it to reach the fluff; strangely just prior to an ancient calendars demise. A calendar made by "prehistoric" savages that etched pictures of "imaginary" space vehicles and astronauts on the walls of caves. This is high strangeness indeed!