Before he was a rock star, Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May was an astrophysicist. He put those skills to the test in NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission.
Brian May of Queen during the Rhapsody Tour on July 11, 2022, at the Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy. Before he was performing for a sea of fans in England’s Wembley Stadium, Queen guitarist Brian May was working toward his PhD in astrophysics whileTech is not your friend. We are. Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter.
The hiatus lasted 30 years. Since then, May has not only received his doctorate, but has also put his skills to the test at NASA — even helping to prevent a recent mission from biting the dust. Eventually, Lauretta brought May on to the mission, where the rock star played a key role: helping the spacecraft touch down on Bennu.
Then, May’s images showed a crater — the Nightingale Crater, to be exact. Though a boulder known as “Mount Doom” was dangerously looming at its edge, the Nightingale Crater’s color suggested it was full of ancient regolith, or a dusty blanket of deposits that could shed light into Bennu’s history. Scientists decided that was the place where the spacecraft’s robotic arm should touch down and begin taking samples.
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