To celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, the Vienna Tourist Board, in collaboration with Jung von Matt DONAU, ...

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

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 ...

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

Voyager 1 will be the guest of honor at what may be the most exclusive concert in history. To mark the 200th birthday of ...

With its sweeping tempo and ethereal melody, Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" waltz has become ...

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

Vienna to beams Strauss's Blue Danube waltz into space to mark his 200th birthday ...

Typical of space’ – Like no other waltz by Strauss junior, “The Blue Danube” evokes the elegance of 19th-century imperial Vienna, which lives on in the city’s roaring ball season.

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

And from there, the waltz will be "transmitted in the form of electromagnetic waves", the Austrian astronomer said. "The Blue Danube" evokes the elegance of 19th‑century Vienna, which lives on ...