NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space Saturday, February 2,
2008 This will mark the first time music has been sent into deep
space. The song will be transmitted from the DSS-63 radio
antenna at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex in
Robledo de Chavela, Spain at 12:00 am UTC. The broadcast
celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song's recording, the
45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network, and the 50th
anniversary of NASA itself. NASA's press release includes
statements from Beatle Paul McCartney, who tells NASA to "send
[his] love to the aliens", and John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono, who
sees the event as "the beginning of the new age in which we will
communicate with billions of planets across the universe." "It
never had the highest profile and is a bit of a forgotten
classic," Lewis said of the song. "But it has universal appeal.
It transcends ages, borders, language and other barriers." NASA
invites astronomy fans and Beatles fans alike to play the song
simultaneously as it is being transmitt