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

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. The ...

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

Vienna to beams Strauss's Blue Danube waltz into space to mark his 200th birthday ...

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

Like no other waltz by Strauss junior, "The Blue Danube" evokes the elegance of 19th-century imperial Vienna, which lives on in the city's roaring ball season. For Norbert Kettner, director of the ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people ... But the world famous waltz will truly travel among the stars on Saturday, when the European Space Agency's ...

And from there, the waltz will be "transmitted in the form of electromagnetic waves", the Austrian astronomer said. "The Blue Danube" evokes the elegance of 19th-century Vienna, which lives on in ...

In partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony Orchestra), Vienna will launch Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" waltz towards NASA's Voyager 1.