
Flight record
3 flights on padside's record, flying from 2002 to 2010, with 6 spacewalks in that span.
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
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.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-132May 14, 2010 · 18:20 UTC
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121July 4, 2006
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-112October 7, 2002
Spacewalks
- STS-121 EVA 32006-07-12
- STS-121 EVA 22006-07-10
- STS-121 EVA 12006-07-08
- STS-112 EVA 32002-10-14
- STS-112 EVA 22002-10-12
- STS-112 EVA 12002-10-10
Born 1955-04-11 · died 2016-12-23