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Imagine Dragons' 2023 single "Children of the Sky" is going to space. On February 26, space tech company Lonestar plans to launch a rocket from Kennedy Space Center in a mission to land a data center on the Moon. If successful, the song will be transmitted from the moon—an achievement that's never happened before.
“Our goal is to inspire the next generation of kids to be excited about the future of space and technology, which is why we chose ‘Children Of The Sky’ as the first song in history to be broadcast from the Moon,” Lonestar investor Ryan Micheletti said in a statement.
"Children of the Sky" was written for Bethesda's video game Starfield. “Bethesda created iconic games we’ve been playing for most of our lives, and we’re honored to have collaborated on this song for Starfield,” Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds said in a statement when the track was released. “The song, like the game, asks some of the most difficult questions we face as humans trying to find our place in the universe.”
“The band has created an amazing, emotional, and memorable song, and I joined them in crafting the Starfield motif into the song as well as iconic elements from the Main Theme and the Starfield orchestral treatment,” the song's collaborator, famous video game composer Inon Zur, added.
Imagine Dragons' last album was 2024's LOOM.