Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission | Space

Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission | Space

Queen guitarist Brian May and Dante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission, have collaborated on a book about the asteroid Bennu — and it's not a PR stunt.

OSIRIS-REx snagged a sample of Bennu in October 2020 and is currently speeding toward Earth with the precious space-rock material, which is scheduled to touch down here on Sept. 24.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2023-07-31T15:00:01Z
Author: Tereza Pultarova
Twitter: @SPACEdotcom
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