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Piers Sellers

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Flight record

3 flights on padside's record, flying from 2002 to 2010, with 6 spacewalks in that span.

3Flights
35d 9hTime in space
1d 17hEVA time
6Spacewalks

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

Spacewalks

  • STS-121 EVA 37h 11m2006-07-12
  • STS-121 EVA 26h 47m2006-07-10
  • STS-121 EVA 17h 31m2006-07-08
  • STS-112 EVA 36h 36m2002-10-14
  • STS-112 EVA 26h 4m2002-10-12
  • STS-112 EVA 17h 1m2002-10-10

Born 1955-04-11 · died 2016-12-23