It's only appropriate that the song that's most associated with Stanley Kubrick's classic "2001: A Space Odyssey," will be beamed into the deepest reaches of space from an earth satellite on May 31st. And while the movie version came from the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, this one will emanate from their counterparts in Vienna. 

It's meant to mark the 200th birthday of composer Johann Strauss, who composed the classic classical piece and will be livestreamed for those interested in watching on the web.  

The speeds involved in this are simply staggering. 

"The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing 670 million mph (more than 1 billion kph).

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

Not even Kubrick would have thought that was possible. And certainly not Strauss!

A station like Classical 96.3 should definitely do a tie in with this when it happens by playing the composition. Highly promotable and pretty interesting, even if you're not a classical music fan. 

Strauss’ ‘Blue Danube’ waltz is launching into space to mark his 200th birthday