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

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

The recent performance, organized by Vienna Symphony Orchestra director Jan Nast, was aimed at correcting the composition's omission on the Voyager Golden Record, which included Bach's Brandenburg ...

Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres What did you do on Saturday? We ask because ...

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

It is Austria’s second national anthem. It is the inescapable conclusion to each New Year’s Day concert in Vienna. But how many of us have ever heard Strauss’s original version? In 1865, Johann ...

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra performed the Blue Danube during the space transmission, which actually sent up a version from rehearsal. It is part of a year-long celebration marking the 200th birthday ...

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