European Space Agency Transmits Strauss’s ‘Blue Danube’ to NASA’s Twin Voyagers - A Concert in Space For decades, music has ...

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In a unique tribute, ESA transmitted the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space to celebrate its 50th anniversary, merging art and ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) beamed Strauss’s The Blue Danube into deep space as a musical message to aliens.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has sent a famous piece of classical music deep into space "for aliens" in a symbolic gesture to mark its 50th anniversary. Johann Strauss II’s The Blue Danube waltz, ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...

In 1865, Johann Herbeck, choirmaster of the Vienna Men’s Choral ... so blue, so blue"). Hear It On J Strauss II: The Blue Danube Among many fine accounts (including Reiner, Boskovsky and Kleiber), ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers ...

Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose “Blue Danube” graced Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi opus “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on ...

Space cadet Holst returns with his Planets suite, as does ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II, gliding down the beautiful blue Danube. Feel the beat with anniversary composer Ravel’s Boléro ...

This undated photo released by the European Space Agency shows the 35 meter-diameter deep-space dish antenna, DSA-2, in Cebreros, Spain, receiving the first signals from Venus Express. (ESA via AP) ...