It’s not everyday that a famous musician from the golden era of rock and roll welcomes home a NASA spacecraft returning the first asteroid samples from space, but that’s exactly what Queen’s Brian May did over the weekend (I sat around a campfire and puttered around my camp all weekend, but you do you Brian May!).
The OSIRUS-REx mission cost $800 Million, excluding launch of course, and is expected to last 7 years. Contrast that with Brian May who is worth an estimated $260 Million dollars (I’m guessing it more than that). So I have “expensive hobbies” according to my wife, but Brian May’s hobby is working on $800 Million dollar NASA asteroid missions. Out of this world!
Queen’s Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample