Out of this world

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

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.

 Vienna tourist board calls it a fix to a cosmic mistake.