He's burnin' through the sky, yeah...
Earlier in the day, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule around 63,000 miles out during a flyby of Earth.
Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Sir Brian, 76, aided the mission by helping to identify where Osiris-Rex could grab a sample from the asteroid. We’re sure there’s a Queen lyric pun to be found in this somewhere, probably a lyric from Don’t Stop Me Now… In a message of support shown on Nasa TV, Sir Brian said: ‘Hello, Nasa folks, space fans, asteroid aficionados, this is Brian May of Queen but also I’m immensely proud to be a team member of Osiris-Rex.The Queen rocker gave a message to viewers of Nasa TV ‘I can’t be with you today, I wish I could, I’m‘Happy sample return day and congratulations to all who worked so incredibly hard on this mission.
The rocker particularly praised his ‘dear friend’ Dante Lauretta, who he created the book Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid with, which is a 3D atlas of the asteroid.
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