Piers Sellers
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Piers John Sellers (born 11 April 1955) is a British astronaut and veteran of a single space shuttle mission.
Sellers, born in Crowbrough, Sussex, earned a bachelor of science degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh and a doctorate in biometeorology from Leeds University. Sellers' work in the field of meteorology has focused primarily on computer modelling of climate systems.
Sellers was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1996 and flew his first space mission aboard STS-112 in 2002. On this mission he performed three spacewalks to help install the third piece of the International Space Station structure. He is scheduled to make his next spaceflight on STS-121.
His favourite band is US rock group Garbage. He met the band in Houston, Texas when the band played there in April 2002. He told them he would be taking their albums into space with them.
When he met the group for the second time in November 2002, he showed them a picture of their album spinning free in outerspace. He was mildly embarrassed, because the CD was in fact a Russian bootleg and not an official pressing of their album!
External link
- NASA Biography (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/sellers.html)