In yet another space exploration first, an orchestral tune written and performed by the Black-Eyed Peas front man was beamed back to Earth Tuesday by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
Launched with Curiosity aboard an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last November, the song entitled "Reach For The Stars" is the first musical composition to be transmitted to Earth from another planet.
The unprecedented radio communications came about after NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden called the entertainer a space geek who went to a science magnet school and asked if he wanted to join the agency's effort to attract young students to science, technology, engineering and mathematics classes.