{"id":168818,"date":"2023-08-01T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/queen-legend-brian-may-helped-nasa-ace-its-asteroid-sampling-mission-new-book-reveals"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:22:41","slug":"queen-legend-brian-may-helped-nasa-ace-its-asteroid-sampling-mission-new-book-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/queen-legend-brian-may-helped-nasa-ace-its-asteroid-sampling-mission-new-book-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission, new book reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/queen-legend-brian-may-helped-nasa-ace-its-asteroid-sampling-mission-new-book-reveals3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Queen guitarist Brian May and Dante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA\u2019s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission, have collaborated on a book about the asteroid Bennu \u2014 and it\u2019s not a PR stunt.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen guitarist Brian May and Dante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA\u2019s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission, have collaborated on a book about the asteroid Bennu \u2014 and it\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}