https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/31/new-horizons-heads-for-flyby-of-space-rock-ultima-thule
After the Pluto encounter, Alan Stern, the principal investigator on New Horizons, asked Brian May, the Queen guitarist and astrophysicist, if he would compose a track to celebrate the Ultima Thule flyby.
“I did scratch my head for a while,” said May. “The name is quite hard to conjure with. But then it came to me that this is about man’s desire to reach out into the universe and explore, and see things that have never been seen before.”
The New Horizons track, May’s first solo single for two decades, included a message from Stephen Hawking and was premiered at the New Horizons control centre at Johns Hopkins University shortly before the flyby.
“It’s been very exciting. I feel like I’m on that thing,” May said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Jm5POCAj8
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