Piers sellers biography

          Piers John Sellers OBE (11 April – 23 December ) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at..

          Piers Sellers

          British-American astronaut (1955–2016)

          This article is about the astronaut.

          PERSONAL DATA: Born April 11, in Crowborough, Sussex, United Kingdom.

        1. PERSONAL DATA: Born April 11, in Crowborough, Sussex, United Kingdom.
        2. Piers John Sellers OBE was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC.
        3. Piers John Sellers OBE (11 April – 23 December ) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at.
        4. Piers John Sellers OBE (11 Nisan - 23 Aralık ), Büyük Britanya kökenli bir Anglo-Amerikan meteorolog ve NASA astronotudur.
        5. Astronaut and ecologist Piers Sellers was an undergraduate student in ecology at Edinburgh, graduating in

          6. For the British actor, see Peter Sellers. For the American director, see Peter Sellars.

          Piers John SellersOBE (11 April 1955 – 23 December 2016) 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.

          Early LifePiers Sellers grew up in Sussex, UK. He watched the Apollo 11 Moon landing when he was 13 and decided he wanted to be an astronaut.

          In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. In 2011, Sellers retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps.[2]

          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