TV News LIES

Tuesday, May 27th

Last update07:56:18 AM GMT

You are here News Science The European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz into space

The European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz into space

Blue Danube beamed into space

Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" has been inextricably linked to space since it was used in the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The waltz played as a fictional spaceship docks with a space station, with expansive views of the Earth and the distant stars.

This week, the piece will take a more literal place among the stars when the European Space Agency broadcasts it into space.

On Saturday, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the piece live, while a radio antenna in Spain beams the music out.

The "Blue Danube" broadcast is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ESA's creation, as well as 200 years since Strauss' birth.

The waltz was notably absent when NASA launched 27 pieces of music, as well as other sounds and images, on matching "Golden Records" on the Voyager 1 and 2 missions in 1977. The Voyager 1 probe is the first human-made object to leave the solar system. Both probes are still flying out into deep space today.

More,,,


Most Recent Related Stories...


Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them

US scientists offered jobsAs the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of...

Paleontologists discover a 500-million-year-old, 3-eyed predator

3 eyed predator Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for...

Pluto's 'extreme cousin' is a dwarf planet found at the far reaches of our solar system

dwarf planet found Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf...

Is the universe really infinite? Astrophysicists explain.

universeEverything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within the universe....
 
America's # 1 Enemy
Tee Shirt
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
TVNL Tee Shirt
 
TVNL TOTE BAG
Conserve our Planet
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
Get your 9/11 & Media
Deception Dollars
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
The Loaded Deck
The First & the Best!
The Media & Bush Admin Exposed!