Queen Legend Brian May Talks NASA Asteroid Mission Collaboration In Exclusive Interview from footboll spot video Watch Video

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Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping scientists find a suitable landing spot on the space rockthat turned out to be completely different from what they had expected and designed their mission for. <br/><br/>May, who famously completed his PhD in astronomy in 2007 after a more than 30-year hiatus enforced by Queen's rise to fame in the early 1970s, sat down with Space.com to discuss his collaboration with the groundbreaking mission, NASA's first attempt to collect a piece of space rock and deliver it to Earth.<br/><br/>\