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

Readers may recall that Strauss’s signature work, The Blue Danube, featured in seminal sci-fi flick 2001: A Space Odyssey ...

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 ...

Like no other waltz by Strauss junior, "The Blue Danube" evokes the elegance of 19th ... "typical sound of space", Kettner said, with the tunes being played "during various docking manoeuvres ...

Strauss’ “Blue Danube” is heading into space this weekend to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king’s birth ... in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles ...

Like no other waltz by Strauss junior, "The Blue Danube" evokes the elegance of 19th ... "typical sound of space", Kettner said, with the tunes being played "during various docking manoeuvres ...

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 ...

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 ...

All year round, in restaurants, shops, and hotels, there is no escaping The Blue Danube waltz. It is the most famous waltz ... encouraged to revisit his commission and write a joyful waltz song to ...