Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers.

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 ...

Members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra perform "The Blue Danube" waltz as it is transmitted into deep space towards Voyager 1. in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes ...

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

This year is the 200th birthday of Austria's world-famous waltz ... For Norbert Kettner, director of the Vienna tourist board, the Danube waltz is a “true unofficial space anthem” because ...

"The Blue Danube" evokes the elegance of 19th-century Vienna, which lives on in the ... By catching up with the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, Austria also seeks to right a perceived wrong.