Johann Strauss

“Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss II is directed to space this month to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the King of Vals.

The classical piece will be transferred to the cosmos as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra performs. The celestial farewell on May 31, broadcast live with free public projections in Vienna, Madrid and New York, will also celebrate the foundation of the European Space Agency 50 years ago.

Although music could become real -time radio signals, according to officials, ESA will transmit a pre -recorded version of the orchestra’s essay the previous day to avoid technical problems. The live presentation will provide accompaniment.

The radio signals will precipitate at the speed of the light, or an amazing 670 million mph (more than 1 billion kph).

That will pass the music beyond the moon in 1½ seconds, beyond Mars in 4 ½ minutes, beyond Jupiter in 37 minutes and beyond Neptune in four hours. In 23 hours, the signs will be as far from the Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft in the world in more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) in the interstellar space.

NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 transmitting a song directly to Deep Space: The Beatles “Throughout the universe. “ And last year, NASA transmitted Missy Elliott’s mission “The rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” towards Venus.

Music has even fluid to another land planet: courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight drivers in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent a recording of Will.i.am’s “Reach for The Stars” to curiosity in 2012 And the rover brought it.

These are all transmissions in the deep space instead of the melodies that transmit between the control of the NASA mission and the equipment in orbit since the mid -1960s.

Now it is Strauss’s turn, after overlooking the Golden Records Voyager almost half a century ago.

Released in 1977, the Twin Voyagers 1 and 2 of the NASA carry a gold -plated copper copper phonograph album, along with an optical pencil and game instructions for anyone or anything out there.

Discs contain sounds and images of the earth, as well as 90 minutes of music. The late astronomer Carl Sagan directed the committee that chose pieces of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky, along with modern and indigenous selections.

Among those who were omitted were Strauss, whose “Blue Danube” honored Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction work “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

The Tourist Board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this “cosmic error” by sending the “most famous waltzes” to his home destined among the stars.

The great radio antenna of ESA in Spain, part of the Space Agency’s deep space network, will make the honors. The dish will sign up for Voyager 1, so the “Danube Blue” is directed in that way.

“Music connects us all the time and space in a very particular way,” said the general director of ESA, Josef Aschbacher, in a statement. “The European Space Agency is pleased to share the stage with Johann Strauss II and open the imagination of future scientists and space explorers who can one day travel to the hymn of space.”

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