The rapper's 1997 debut single is now the first hip-hop song sent to deep space.
Almost 50 years after NASA opted to make Chuck Berry one of the first sounds aliens may hear from intelligent life on Earth, the space agency blasted a more contemporary music sampling into space.
Venus is located 158 million miles from Earth, meaning that, traveling at the speed of light, it took the song 14 minutes to arrive at its destination. The second planet from the sun, Venus is named for the goddess of love and is apparently the rap legend’s favorite planet. Venus has been the subject of several NASA missions dating back to 1962’s Mariner 2 and will be further explored by
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