Piers John Sellers

Piers John Sellers
Piers John Sellers
Piers John Sellers
Astronaut NASA
Státní příslušnostUSA USA
Datum narození11. dubna 1955
Místo narozeníCrowborough a Crowborough War Memorial Hospital
Datum úmrtí23. prosince 2016 (ve věku 61 let)
Místo úmrtíHouston
Předchozí
zaměstnání
vědec
Čas ve vesmíru35 dní, 9 hodin a 2 minuty
Kosmonaut od1996
MiseSTS-112, STS-121, STS-132
Znaky misíSTS-112 Patch.svg STS-121 patch.svg STS-132 Patch.svg
Kosmonaut do2011
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Piers John Sellers (11. dubna 1955 Crowborough, hrabství Sussex, Spojené království23. prosince 2016 Houston, Texas[1]) byl anglo-americký meteorolog a kosmonaut. Ve vesmíru byl třikrát.

Život

Studium a zaměstnání

Absolvoval střední školu Cranbrook School v městě Cranbrook, hrabství Kent, stát Spojené království (zakončil roku 1976) a poté ve studiu pokračoval na University of Edinburgh. Magisterské studium ukončil v roce 1976 a stal se vědcem-ekologem. Doktorát získal na univerzitě Leeds University v britském Leedsu.

Zaměstnání získal u agentury NASA v Goddard Space Flight Center.

V letech 1996 až 1998 absolvoval výcvik budoucích kosmonautů v Houstonu, poté byl zařazen do tamní jednotky astronautů NASA. Zůstal v ní do června 2011. I poté u NASA zůstal zaměstnán.

Oženil se, jeho manželkou se stala Amanda, rozená Lomasová.

Lety do vesmíru

Na oběžnou dráhu se v raketoplánu dostal třikrát ve funkci letového specialisty, pracoval na orbitální stanici ISS, strávil ve vesmíru 35 dní, 9 hodin a 2 minuty. Absolvoval také 6 výstupů do volného vesmíru v celkové délce pobytu 41 hodin a 10 minut. Byl 422. člověkem ve vesmíru.

Zemřel 23. prosince 2016 na rakovinu slinivky.

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STS-112 Patch.svg
The STS-112 emblem symbolizes the ninth assembly mission (9A) to the International Space Station (ISS), a flight which is designed to deliver the Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment. The 30,000 pound truss segment will be lifted to orbit in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and installed using the ISS robotic arm. Three space walks will then be carried out to complete connections between the truss and ISS. Future missions will extend the truss structure to a span of over 350 feet so that it can support the solar arrays and radiators which provide the electrical power and cooling for ISS. The STS-112 emblem depicts ISS from the viewpoint of a departing shuttle, with the installed S1 truss segment outlined in red. A gold trail represents a portion of the Shuttle rendezvous trajectory. Where the trajectory meets ISS, a nine-pointed star represents the combined on-orbit team of six shuttle and three ISS crew members who together will complete the S1 truss installation. The trajectory continues beyond the ISS, ending in a six-pointed star representing the Atlantis and the STS-112 crew.
STS-132 Patch.svg
The STS-132 mission will be the 32nd flight of the space shuttle Atlantis. The primary STS-132 mission objective is to deliver the Russian-made MRM-1 (Mini Research Module) to the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis will also deliver a new communications antenna and a new set of batteries for one of the ISS solar arrays. The STS-132 mission patch features Atlantis flying off into the sunset as the end of the Space Shuttle Program approaches. However the sun is also heralding the promise of a new day as it rises for the first time on a new ISS module, the MRM-1, which is also named Rassvet, the Russian word for dawn.
STS-121 patch.svg
The STS-121 patch depicts the Space Shuttle docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in the foreground, overlaying the astronaut symbol with three gold columns and a gold star. The ISS is shown in the configuration that it will be in during the STS-121 mission. The background shows the nighttime Earth with a dawn breaking over the horizon. STS-121, ISS mission ULF1.1, is the final Shuttle Return to Flight test mission. This utilization and logistics flight will bring a multipurpose logistics module (MPLM) to the ISS with several thousand pounds of new supplies and experiments. In addition, some new orbital replacement units (ORUs) will be delivered and stowed externally on ISS on a special pallet. These ORUs are spares for critical machinery located on the outside of the ISS. During this mission the crew will also carry out testing of Shuttle inspection and repair hardware, as well as evaluate operational techniques and concepts for conducting on-orbit inspection and repair.
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Official portrait image of NASA astronaut Piers Sellers