Piers Sellers
British-born American astronaut · United Kingdom · On the map · Astronauts · Lived 1955 to 2016 · aged 61
Piers John Sellers was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.
Piers Sellers is read about 32 times a day, in 29 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 14 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 118 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Also in Deutsch
Media & music
Awards
About this person
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. In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. In 2011, Sellers retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps.
