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

The dish will be pointed in the direction of Voyager 1 so the "Blue Danube" heads that way. "Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way," ESA's director general Josef ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II’s The Blue Danube has, for many people ... orchestra director Jan Nast said. Music is a language “which touches many people” and has “the universal power to convey ...

Travelling at the speed of light, the music was expected to overtake Voyager 1 within 23 hours. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra performed the Blue Danube during the space transmission, which ...