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NASA plans to beam the Beatles song “Across the Universe,” well, across the universe. In commemoration of its 50th anniversary and the 40th anniversary of the song, the agency on Monday will beam the track into the heavens from its giant antenna in Madrid.

“Send my love to the aliens,” Beatle Paul McCartney said in a statement released by the space agency. “All the best.” Yoko Ono, widow of the Beatle John Lennon, the principal author of “Across the Universe,” also hailed the transmission–in her own special way: “I see that this is the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe,” she said.