{"id":191883,"date":"2026-04-10T06:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:53:36","slug":"queens-brian-may-reacts-to-under-pressure-waking-up-the-artemis-ii-crew-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191883\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Brian May reacts to \u2018Under Pressure\u2019 waking up The Artemis II crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Under Pressure<\/a>,\u201d Queen\u2019s iconic collaboration with David Bowie, is one of the songs that was used to wake up the astronauts on Artemis II.<\/p>\n<p>NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW3ygLADYnu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">revealed<\/a> the Artemis II <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0WO94bzZeuUun777vv6UJu?si=Nhmsvj9ZTMCW7zEJfTJ4pg&amp;utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=link_in_bio&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGng85Uln-3sJvgCcIKSM8veGPeRYlzcwKzn4JQ-bepu6eTOuhT3mxHY2Kpubo_aem_iis_TwiffNAf9MKWHLSz1A&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=b7d7a778b3e044fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">wake-up playlist<\/a>, featuring songs selected by the members of the Artemis crew. The Queen\/Bowie track woke up the astronauts on Wednesday, day eight of the 10-day mission.<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s Brian May, who has a degree in astrophysics, reacted to the news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW5VXk-s8XC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, writing that he was \u201cHonoured\u201d by the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy to be waking up the heroes in their space ship rounding up their amazing trip around the Moon!!\u201d he wrote in the post\u2019s caption. \u201cHappy Landings guys !! You rock !!! Bri.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder Pressure\u201d was released as a single in October 1981 and later appeared on Queen\u2019s 1982 album, Hot Space. It went to #1 in the U.K. and was a top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. It was later sampled by Vanilla Ice for his hit track \u201cIce Ice Baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUnder Pressure,\u201d Queen\u2019s iconic collaboration with David Bowie, is one of the songs that was used to wake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[66130,55936,20072,55937,9,24,63,41112,122,124,123,76755,76756],"class_list":{"0":"post-191883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-artemis","9":"tag-brian","10":"tag-crew","11":"tag-ii","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-pressure","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-reacts","20":"tag-waking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}