First Hip-Hop Song In Deep Space As NASA Sends Missy Elliott Tune To Venus

Venus has fetch a little more rhythm across its cloud thanks to NASA and Missy Elliott . The outer space agency and the creative person collaborated to transmit an inspirational substance and the words to one of her songs to the planet Venus .

The Song dynasty chosen wasThe Rain ( Supa Dupa Fly ) . It has become the first hip - hop Song dynasty to be transmitted across NASA ’s Deep Space web , the second overall after the DSN was used to transmit the Beatles ’ songAcross The Universein2008 .

“ I still ca n’t think I ’m run out of this Earth with NASA through the Deep Space internet when ‘ The Rain ( Supa Dupa Fly ) ’ becomes the first ever hip - record hop birdsong to transmit to outer space ! ” state Elliott in astatement . “ I chose Venus because it symbolizes persuasiveness , peach , and empowerment and I am so humbled to have the opportunity to share my art and my message with the universe ! ”

The transmission system was institutionalise by the Deep Space Station 13 at theDSN ’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex . That antenna , coincidentally , is nicknamed Venus . The message was sent at the fastness of light , and it take up 14 minutes to intersect the 254 million kilometers ( 158 million miles ) between Earth and where Venus currently is .

“ Both space geographic expedition and Missy Elliott ’s fine art have been about pushing boundaries , ” say Brittany Brown , music director of the Digital and Technology Division , Office of Communications , at NASA Headquarters in Washington , who ab initio pitched ideas to Missy ’s squad to collaborate with the agency . “ Missy has a track record of instill space - centric storytelling and futuristic visuals in her medicine video so the opportunity to cooperate on something out of this earthly concern is rightfully fitting . ”

Venus is Missy Elliott ’s favorite planet , and this is why it was select . The content was not send with any specificintentions . There is no radiocommunication - equal to spirit on Venus – but if it were , they ’d be bloody favourable to be become songs from Earth !