Imagine Dragons' 'Children of the Sky' successfully sent to the moon on Lonestar rocket

An Imagine Dragons song has officially been sent to the moon.

Last month, it was announced that space tech company Lonestar would launch a rocket from Kennedy Space Center to deliver a data center to the lunar surface.

If successful, a song would be transmitted to the data center, chosen as the collaboration between Imagine Dragons and composer Inon Zur, titled "Children of the Sky," from the Starfield soundtrack.

The mission launched on February 26 and successfully landed on the moon on March 6. Inon Zur shared on social media that after landing, the data center received the song and its lyrics, exclaiming, “The song will now be on the Moon… forever!!”

However, the mission faced challenges. During landing, the spacecraft temporarily lost contact with its home base.

Once communication was re-established, it was revealed that the spacecraft had landed off-target, one of its two radio antennas was malfunctioning, and it was not generating enough power to complete the mission.

By March 7, the spacecraft's power was fully depleted, ending the mission. Consequently, "Children of the Sky" was not broadcast back to Earth as initially planned, which would have made it the first song ever transmitted from the moon.

Despite this setback, the song has been successfully transmitted to the moon's data center, adding it to a growing list of lunar songs.

In 2024, it was reported that a lunar lander containing digitized recordings of songs from artists like Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, and Timbaland had also touched down on the moon.