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Piers Sellers, Space Shuttle Astronaut and NASA Climate Scientist, Dies at 61

Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist and NASA astronaut who launched on three space shuttle missions, died on Friday (Dec. 23). He was 61. By Robert Z. Pearlman.

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  • AdelleChattre (edited 7 years ago)
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    From something he wrote back in January:

    As for me, I’ve no complaints. I’m very grateful for the experiences I’ve had on this planet. As an astronaut I spacewalked 220 miles above the Earth. Floating alongside the International Space Station, I watched hurricanes cartwheel across oceans, the Amazon snake its way to the sea through a brilliant green carpet of forest, and gigantic nighttime thunderstorms flash and flare for hundreds of miles along the Equator. From this God’s-eye-view, I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the Earth is. I’m hopeful for its future. And so, I’m going to work tomorrow.

    Vale Piers Sellers.

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