Astronauta Piers Sellers

Dati personali

Nome Piers Sellers
Data di nascita 1955-04-11
Data di morte 2016-12-23
Nazionalità :us:
Tipo Governativo
Affiliazione National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Status Decedutǝ in servizio attivo
Tempo nello spazio 35 giorni, 9 ore, 3 minuti, 14 secondi [1]
Tempo in EVA 41 ore, 10 minuti
Wikipedia Piers_Sellers

Note biografiche

(Traduzione automatica) Piers John Sellers OBE was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut[1] and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three space shuttle missions. Sellers attended Cranbrook School, Cranbrook, Kent, United Kingdom, until 1973, and achieved a bachelor’s degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. In 2011, Sellers retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps.

Before joining the astronaut corps, Sellers worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on research into how the Earth’s biosphere and atmosphere interact. This work involved climate system computer modelling and field work utilising aircraft, satellites and ground support input.

Missioni

Dal Al Destinazione Lancio Veicolo spaziale
2002-10-07
2002-10-18
International Space Station Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-112 Space Shuttle Atlantis
2006-07-04
2006-07-17
International Space Station Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121 Space Shuttle Discovery
2010-05-14
2010-05-26
International Space Station Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-132 Space Shuttle Atlantis

Ultimo aggiornamento: 2024-02-16T00:43:56 con AstronautiBOT 13.3 - Fonte: LaunchLibrary2 API


  1. Per gli astronauti attualmente in volo questo dato è aggiornato all’ultimo aggiornamento di questa scheda. ↩︎