Piers Sellers
Piers Sellers is an astronaut from United States of America affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 3 space flights and engaging in 6 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.
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.
- Date of Birth: 04/11/1955
- Date of Death: 12/23/2016
- Status: Died While In Active Service
- First Flight: 10/07/2002
- Last Flight: 05/14/2010
- In Space: No
Launches
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-112
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-132
Spacewalks
STS-112 EVA 1
The spacewalk began at 10/10/2002 15:21 UTC and ended at 10/10/2002 22:22 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 7 hours and 1 minutes.
STS-112 EVA 2
The spacewalk began at 10/12/2002 14:31 UTC and ended at 10/12/2002 20:35 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 4 minutes.
STS-112 EVA 3
The spacewalk began at 10/14/2002 14:08 UTC and ended at 10/14/2002 20:44 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 36 minutes.
STS-121 EVA 1
The spacewalk began at 07/08/2006 13:17 UTC and ended at 07/08/2006 20:48 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 7 hours and 31 minutes.
STS-121 EVA 2
The spacewalk began at 07/10/2006 07:14 UTC and ended at 07/10/2006 14:01 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 47 minutes.
STS-121 EVA 3
The spacewalk began at 07/12/2006 06:20 UTC and ended at 07/12/2006 13:31 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 7 hours and 11 minutes.
