Beatles Ringo Starr's Voice Broadcast to Space on His 83rd Birthday

NASA Transmits to Galaxy... "Peace and Love"
Ringo Starr Responds, "It Was a Wonderful Birthday"

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) transmitted the voice of Ringo Starr, a member of the legendary British band The Beatles, into space. This was to celebrate his 83rd birthday.

According to a report by the American media outlet The Hill on the 8th (local time), NASA broadcast Starr's voice shouting "peace and love" into space from a base in Barstow, California, on the day he turned 83.

For the past 15 years, Starr has celebrated his birthday by shouting "peace and love" with family and friends in parks and other places.

NASA tweeted on the day, "Celebrating Ringo Starr's 83rd birthday," adding, "We are now sending the #PeaceAndLove message to Stephan's Quintet." Starr responded, "It was a really wonderful birthday."

The place where NASA sent Starr's voice is a group of five galaxy clusters known as "Stephan's Quintet." It was first observed by French astronomer ?douard Stephan in 1877, which is how it got its name. At the time, it was known as a nebula, but later observations revealed that it is actually five galaxies.

Ringo Starr [Photo by AFP Yonhap News]

The transmission was carried out through the giant radio antenna network called the "Deep Space Network" (DSN). NASA maintains 24-hour communication with space through one DSN station each in the United States, Spain, and Australia.

Since the successful moon landing in 1969 and into the 1970s, NASA has sent messages toward unknown extraterrestrial civilizations that might be encountered in space.

There are two methods of sending messages: one is to send them aboard spacecraft. The Pioneer 10 and 11, launched in 1972 and 1973, carried metal plaques, and the Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, carried golden records. The metal plaques depicted images of a man and a woman and the structure of the solar system, while the Voyager golden records contained various images, sounds of nature, and greetings in 55 languages including Korean.

The other method is to send radio messages directly from Earth into space. The first publicly known instance was in 1974, when a radio message was sent through the 300-meter diameter Arecibo radio telescope.

Meanwhile, Starr, along with another Beatles member Paul McCartney (81), is scheduled to release the Beatles' final new song later this year. The Hill reported that "the new song will be based on an unfinished track left on a demo tape by John Lennon, who died in 1980."

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