OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid
Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named after him. In 2023, May contributed to NASA'sOSIRIS-REx mission, the agency's first successful collection and earth delivery
is a robotic arm on the OSIRIS-REx space probe designed and used for collecting a sample from asteroid 101955 Bennu. OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016. It