The sky is not the limit, it’s just the beginning 🛸🎶
It’s not every day that NASA approaches an artist and asks which planet they’d like to beam their art to.
Recently, NASA collaborated with Grammy-winning rapper, singer, and songwriter Missy Elliott to send her song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to Venus, Elliott’s favorite planet. “I chose Venus because it symbolizes strength, beauty and empowerment and I am so humbled to have the opportunity to share my art and my message with the universe!” Elliott said in a statement.
The song was transmitted across 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) at the speed of light by NASA’s DSN (Deep Space Network); the journey took about 14 minutes to complete. More specifically, it was transmitted by the Deep Space Station 13 (DSS-13) radio dish antenna at the DSN’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California. Fittingly, the station’s nickname is “Venus.”
