CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Strauss’ “Blue Danube” is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The classical piece will be beamed into the cosmos as it's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Strauss’ “Blue Danube” is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king’s birth. The classical piece will be beamed into the cosmos as it’s ...

The Danube is not blue, at least not in Budapest, and not so much in Vienna, where recently I spent time vacationing with my wife. It might have been blue in 1866 when Johann Strauss composed the Blue ...

The ESA plans to broadcast a live performance of Johann Strauss II's Danube Waltz into space on May 31. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss II and the 50th anniversary ...

The digitised sound will be transmitted to the large 35-metre satellite dish at ESA’s Cebreros ground station in Spain. This year is the 200th birthday of Austria's ...

This undated photo released by the European Space Agency shows the 35 meter-diameter deep-space dish antenna, DSA-2, in Cebreros, Spain, receiving the first signals from Venus Express. (ESA via AP) ...

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