Strauss' 'Blue Danube' is beamed into space as Vienna celebrates with a concert

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has yet made it into space, astir a half-century aft missing a thrust connected NASA's Voyagers

VIENNA -- Strauss’ “Blue Danube” waltz has yet made it into space, astir a half-century aft missing a thrust connected NASA’s duplicate Voyager spacecraft.

The European Space Agency’s large vigor antenna successful Spain beamed the waltz into the cosmos Saturday. Operators aimed the crockery astatine Voyager 1, the world’s astir distant spacecraft much than 15 cardinal miles (24 cardinal kilometers) away. Traveling astatine the velocity of light, the euphony was expected to overtake Voyager 1 wrong 23 hours.

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra performed the “Blue Danube” during the abstraction transmission, which really sent up a mentation from rehearsal. It's portion of the yearlong solemnisation marking the 200th day of Johann Strauss II, who was calved successful Vienna successful 1825. The Strauss abstraction send-off besides honors the 50th day of ESA's founding.

Launched successful 1977 and present successful interstellar space, each of the 2 Voyagers carries a Golden Record afloat of euphony but thing from the waltz king. His “Blue Danube” holds peculiar meaning for abstraction fans: It's featured successful Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

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