The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on Oct. 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this "cosmic mistake" by ...

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

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

Strauss' "Blue Danube" is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth ... in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles' "Across ...

A classical masterpiece with deep ties to spaceflight pop culture will finally reach the stars next week when the European ...

The event is the culmination of Vienna's "Waltz Space" campaign, which invited fans to symbolically send a note of the song into space ... unique note from "The Blue Danube"—for a chance ...