Missy Elliott lyrics blasted off into space as NASA transmitted her song "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" 158 million miles from Earth to Venus, the space agency said Monday. It took nearly 14 minutes for ...

Elliott's 1997 hit is the first-ever hip-hop song to be transmitted into space by NASA Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage Missy Elliott was one of the first women in hip-hop to make going to space look cool.

Temperatures on Venus hover around 870 degrees, but the second-closest planet to the sun got a little bit cooler recently when NASA showered it with Missy Elliott’s hit song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly).

The rapper’s song was transmitted at the speed of light — approximately 158 million miles — from Earth to Venus, which is Elliott's “favorite planet." Missy Elliott can now be heard in space. The ...

Space — the final frontier. But as Missy Elliott, who just became the second musician ever to have a song transmitted into deep space, said in a tweet borrowing a widely quoted phrase, “the sky is not ...

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(CNN) — How long does it take to reach Venus? For Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” it took nearly 14 minutes to travel all the way to the planet of love, a distance of about 158 million ...