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.

The planet Venus just received a gift from NASA, but this time it’s not in the form of a spacecraft or lander, but instead in the form of a hip hop song transmitted by the agency’s Deep Space Network, ...

“For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Students, special guests and news media gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The music of Missy Elliott is now “Workin’ It” on the planet of love. NASA says it transmitted Missy Elliott’s song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to Venus using radio antennas.