The Queen rockstar, who has a PhD in astrophysics, shared his gripes with humanity in a brief video clip for the European Space Agency (ESA). Mr May, 71, appeared in a promotional video for ESA where he revealed his “space dream” inspired by the first man on the Moon Neil Armstrong. The musician vaguely hinted at Brexit, saying he is British but also “European as we speak”. Mr May then went on to argue humans should not venture into space unless prepared to do so responsibly and in good spirit.
The musician said: “Hi folks, I am Brian May, I am British, I am European as we speak and I’m an astronomer and a musician.
“My space dream is based on the words, which you can find in this book, which were uttered by hero Neil Armstrong, shortly before he died, at a conference that I attended.
“He said this, he said, ‘Let us hope that our grandchildren at our age can look back and say the 20th century was a century of advancement and improvement in technology and the 21st century was a century of advancement and improvement in human character’.
“My space dream is that we sort out how we behave on our own planet before we venture out into space.
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“And when we do go out there, we take decent values with us, we take values which embody respect for all creatures, each other, and all the other species which inhabit our beautiful blue planet.
“It’s my dream that we take this decency into space and procreate responsibly the spirit of the best of human nature. Thank you.”
Mr May is an avid animal rights activist and pro-European, who has dubbed Brexit the “stupidest thing” the UK has ever done.
Mr May is also a vocal opponent of fox hunting and the culling of badgers and has founded the animal welfare organisation Save Me.
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Between 1970 and 1974, the musician studied for a PhD degree at Imperial College London, which he eventually suspended to focus on his career with Queen.
The guitarist then re-enlisted at Imperial College in October 2006 and submitted a thesis dubbed A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud in 2007.
Mr May then graduated in 2008 and has been involved in a number of scientific endeavours since.
Most recently, Mr May took part in the NASA New Horizons space probe flyby of the Kuiper belt object Ultima Thule between December 2018 and January 2019.
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Before that, he co-founded the international Asteroid Day in 2014 as a global awareness campaign on the dangers lurking in space.
In 2015, Mr May collaborated with the science team behind the NASA New Horizons flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.
And in 2007 the musician was awarded an honorary fellowship at the Liverpool John Moores University for his contributions to science.
In 2008, an asteroid was named after him – Asteroid 52665 Brianmay.