Piers Sellers – Astronomy Now

29 June 2017

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Piers Sellers, shuttle astronaut and renowned climate researcher, dies at 61

26 December 2016 Stephen Clark

Former astronaut Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist who flew on three space shuttle missions to help construct the International Space Station, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.