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Piers John Sellers (1955-2016)
« dnia: Grudzień 23, 2016, 22:43 »
Zmarł Piers J. Sellers (http://lk.astronautilus.pl/astros/422.htm).

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Thomas Zurbuchen ‏@Dr_ThomasZ 20 min.20 minut temu
#RIP Piers Sellers. An admired astronaut, a ground-breaking Earth scientist, a community leader, a friend. The impact of his work lives on!



PS. Czy mamy wątek, w którym odnotowujemy takie smutne wydarzenia? Bo nie jest chyba celowe zakładanie osobnych wątków dla każdego astronauty...
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« Odpowiedź #1 dnia: Grudzień 24, 2016, 21:13 »
23 grudnia 2016 zmarł Piers  Sellers http://lk.astronautilus.pl/astros/422.htm
Zaledwie 6 lat temu ostatni raz poleciał na orbitę.
http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=140.msg100197#msg100197

Na Forum był przedstawiany film z udziałem zmarłego astronauty. Powiedział w nim o swojej chorobie.
Rak trzustki będzie w UE powodował więcej zgonów w przyszłości.
Sally Ride http://lk.astronautilus.pl/astros/121.htm  też w wieku 61 lat zmarła z tego samego powodu.
http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=2500.msg99064#msg99064

Zostały docenione  wysiłki  Piersa  Sellersa na rzecz propagowania działań przeciwdziałających skutkom efektu cieplarnianego
http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=921.msg98804#msg98804

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sellers_piers.pdf?emrc=3f9720

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/sellers_piers.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/s/sellers.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/s/sellers-p.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00422.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/sellers-piers-john.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/index/in_pers/13_084.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/sellers421ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Sellers
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Sellers

https://science.nasa.gov/people/piers-sellers/
https://www.astronomy.com/science/this-is-astronaut-piers-sellers-last-message-before-his-death/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/24/climate-scientist-and-nasa-astronaut-piers-sellers-dies-aged-61


Astronaut Piers J. Sellers, STS-112 mission specialist, is pictured on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Astronaut Piers J. Sellers uses both a handrail on the Destiny Laboratory and a foot restraint on the Space Station Remote Manipulator System or Canadarm2 to remain stationary while performing work at the end of the STS-112 mission's second spacewalk. A cloud-covered Earth provides the backdrop for the scene.

Astronaut Piers J. Sellers, STS-121 mission specialist, looks out a window on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.

Astronaut Piers J. Sellers, STS-121 mission specialist, holds an interface umbilical assembly (IUA) on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery. The IUA was replaced during Flight Day 5 extravehicular activity (EVA) while the shuttle was docked with the International Space Station.

Astronaut Piers J. Sellers, STS-121 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA). The demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques was the objective of the 7-hour, 11-minute excursion outside Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station.

(22 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Piers Sellers, STS-132 mission specialist, works with Group Activation Packs (GAP) on the middeck of space shuttle Atlantis while docked with the International Space Station.[/i]

(15 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Piers Sellers, STS-132 mission specialist, uses a still camera at an overhead window on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Atlantis during flight day two activities.
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« Odpowiedź #2 dnia: Grudzień 24, 2016, 21:15 »
Odejścia astronautów są odnotowywane w dziale osobistości.
Być może jest potrzeba utworzenie osobnego wątku  z uwzględnieniem wątków odnoszących się do tego tematu.
Póki nie ma jeszcze osobnego wątku to warto zgodnie z dotychczasową tradycją otworzyć wątek wg obecnych zasad.

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« Odpowiedź #3 dnia: Grudzień 24, 2016, 21:28 »
This note was sent out earlier today by Colleen Hartman, Director, Sciences and Exploration Directorate NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: "All, I am so very sad and bereft to tell you that Piers passed away this morning. He was not in pain and his family was with him. A light has left our world. We will miss him so very much. He asked that Tucker and I arrange a celebration of his life here in Washington DC. in the Spring time. Piers knew your work was the most important in the world. Please continue fighting the good fight and remembering the great times we had with the most amazing man in this world. We will never forget him. With deep sadness, Colleen"

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2016/12/piers-sellers.html

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« Odpowiedź #4 dnia: Grudzień 24, 2016, 21:43 »
Naprawdę szkoda - rak trzustki jest naprawdę zabójczy i wciąż nie wiadomo jak z nim walczyć...

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Misja STS-132, w której brał udział Piers Sellers była relacjonowana na Kosmonaucie:

http://kosmonauta.net/?s=sts+132&paged=2
http://kosmonauta.net/?s=sts+132

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Piers Sellers, shuttle astronaut and NASA climate scientist, dies at 61

December 23, 2016 — Piers Sellers, a British-American climate scientist and former NASA astronaut who launched on three space shuttle missions to the International Space Station, died on Friday (Dec. 23). He was 61.

Sellers' death came just over 11 months after he revealed he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer in an editorial for The New York Times. In the column, Sellers wrote about how his prognosis added a sense of urgency to his work on climate change.

"I was forced to decide how to spend my remaining time," Sellers explained. "I concluded that all I really wanted to do was spend more time with the people I know and love, and get back to my office as quickly as possible."

Sellers' death was mourned by his fellow scientists, NASA colleagues and astronauts as news spread on Friday.

"An admired astronaut, a ground-breaking Earth scientist, a community leader, a friend. The impact of his work lives on!" wrote Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, on Twitter.

"Saddened by the loss of [a] friend and champion for our planet," tweeted former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott.

"The entire NASA family mourns the passing of scientist and astronaut Piers Sellers," said Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, in a statement. "He was a strident defender and eloquent spokesperson for our home planet, Earth."

Sellers began his career in spaceflight as a meteorologist working at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conducting research into how Earth's biosphere and atmosphere interact. Sellers was the project scientist for NASA's flagship Earth observing system, Terra, when he was selected to be an astronaut in 1996.

Sellers' first launch to the International Space Station was as a member of shuttle Atlantis' STS-112 crew in October 2002. During the flight, Sellers made three spacewalks to help install a segment of the station's backbone truss.

Sellers returned to orbit in July 2006, aboard STS-121, the second return to flight mission after the loss of the orbiter Columbia three years earlier. As a space shuttle Discovery crew member, Sellers ventured outside the station again to conduct maintenance and demonstrate repair techniques for the shuttle's thermal protection tiles.

Sellers' third and last mission to the orbiting laboratory saw him fly again on Atlantis as an STS-132 mission specialist. The May 2010 flight delivered the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module to the space station on what had been slated to be Atlantis' final mission (the orbiter flew again to end the space shuttle program in July 2011).

In total, Sellers logged 35 days, 9 hours and 2 minutes in space, including more than 41 hours on six spacewalks.

A year after he landed back on Earth, Sellers left NASA's astronaut corps in Houston and returned to Maryland to be deputy director of Goddard Space Flight Center's Sciences and Exploration Directorate, a position he still held at the time of his death.

Piers John Sellers was born in Crowborough, England, on April 11, 1955.

Sellers earned his bachelor of science degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland (UK) in 1976, and his doctorate in biometeorology from Leeds University in the United Kingdom in 1981, prior to moving to the United States in 1982 to conduct climate research for NASA.

As a resident associate for the National Research Council, faculty associate scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park and staff scientist at Goddard, Sellers helped to construct computer models of the global climate system, conducted satellite remote sensing studies and performed large-scale field experiments utilizing aircraft, satellites and ground teams in the U.S., Canada, Africa and Brazil.

In addition to his role as Deputy Director for Sciences and Exploration, Sellers was also the Acting Director for Earth Sciences at Goddard.

In the year since Sellers' diagnosis with pancreatic cancer, he became a more prominent advocate for climate change research. In October, he appeared with Leonardo DiCaprio in National Geographic's documentary "Before the Flood."

"Here are the facts: The climate is warming," Sellers told the National Geographic Society in an interview supporting the documentary. "We've measured it, from the beginning of the industrial revolution to now. It correlates so well with emissions and theory, we know within almost an absolute certainty that it's us who are causing the warming and the CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions."

The author of 70 research papers, Sellers was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2011 for services to science. In June, he was bestowed the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.

On Dec. 17, the Space Foundation announced that Sellers would be conferred its highest honor, the Gen. James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award, at its 2017 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.

Sellers is survived by his wife of 36 years, Amanda, their son Thomas and daughter Imogen and a grandson, Jack.

"I've no complaints," Sellers wrote in The New York Times in January. "I am very grateful for the experiences I've had on this planet."

"As an astronaut I spacewalked 220 miles [355 km] above 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," he said.

"From this God's-eye-view, I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the Earth is. I'm hopeful for its future."

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-122316b-obituary-piers-sellers-astronaut.html   

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Cancer and Climate Change
By Piers J. Sellers Jan. 16, 2016

I’M a climate scientist who has just been told I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. I’ve spent much of my professional life thinking about the science of climate change, which is best viewed through a multidecadal lens. At some level I was sure that, even at my present age of 60, I would live to see the most critical part of the problem, and its possible solutions, play out in my lifetime. Now that my personal horizon has been steeply foreshortened, I was forced to decide how to spend my remaining time. Was continuing to think about climate change worth the bother?

After handling the immediate business associated with the medical news — informing family, friends, work; tidying up some finances; putting out stacks of unread New York Times Book Reviews to recycle; and throwing a large “Limited Edition” holiday party, complete with butlers, I had some time to sit at my kitchen table and draw up the bucket list.

Very quickly, I found out that I had no desire to jostle with wealthy tourists on Mount Everest, or fight for some yardage on a beautiful and exclusive beach, or all those other things one toys with on a boring January afternoon. Instead, I concluded that all I really wanted to do was spend more time with the people I know and love, and get back to my office as quickly as possible.

I work for NASA, managing a large group of expert scientists doing research on the whole Earth system (I should mention that the views in this article are my own, not NASA’s). This involves studies of climate and weather using space-based observations and powerful computer models. These models describe how the planet works, and what can happen as we pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The work is complex, exacting, highly relevant and fascinating.

Last year was the warmest year on record, by far. I think that future generations will look back on 2015 as an important but not decisive year in the struggle to align politics and policy with science. This is an incredibly hard thing to do. On the science side, there has been a steady accumulation of evidence over the last 15 years that climate change is real and that its trajectory could lead us to a very uncomfortable, if not dangerous, place. On the policy side, the just-concluded climate conference in Paris set a goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels.

While many have mocked this accord as being toothless and unenforceable, it is noteworthy that the policy makers settled on a number that is based on the best science available and is within the predictive capability of our computer models.

It’s doubtful that we’ll hold the line at 2 degrees Celsius, but we need to give it our best shot. With scenarios that exceed that target, we are talking about enormous changes in global precipitation and temperature patterns, huge impacts on water and food security, and significant sea level rise. As the predicted temperature rises, model uncertainty grows, increasing the likelihood of unforeseen, disastrous events.

All this as the world’s population is expected to crest at around 9.5 billion by 2050 from the current seven billion. Pope Francis and a think tank of retired military officers have drawn roughly the same conclusion from computer model predictions: The worst impacts will be felt by the world’s poorest, who are already under immense stress and have meager resources to help them adapt to the changes. They will see themselves as innocent victims of the developed world’s excesses. Looking back, the causes of the 1789 French Revolution are not a mystery to historians; looking forward, the pressure cooker for increased radicalism, of all flavors, and conflict could get hotter along with the global temperature.

Last year may also be seen in hindsight as the year of the Death of Denial. Globally speaking, most policy makers now trust the scientific evidence and predictions, even as they grapple with ways to respond to the problem. And most Americans — 70 percent, according to a recent Monmouth University poll — believe that the climate is changing. So perhaps now we can move on to the really hard part of this whole business.

The initial heavy lifting will have to be done by policy makers. I feel for them. It’s hard to take a tough stand on an important but long-term issue in the face of so many near-term problems, amid worries that reducing emissions will weaken our global economic position and fears that other countries may cheat on their emissions targets.

Where science can help is to keep track of changes in the Earth system — this is a research and monitoring job, led by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and their counterparts elsewhere in the world — and use our increasingly powerful computer models to explore possible futures associated with proposed policies. The models will help us decide which approaches are practicable, trading off near-term impacts to the economy against longer-term impacts to the climate.

Ultimately, though, it will be up to the engineers and industrialists of the world to save us. They must come up with the new technologies and the means of implementing them. The technical and organizational challenges of solving the problems of clean energy generation, storage and distribution are enormous, and they must be solved within a few decades with minimum disruption to the global economy. This will likely entail a major switch to nuclear, solar and other renewable power, with an electrification of our transport system to the maximum extent possible. These engineers and industrialists are fully up to the job, given the right incentives and investments. You have only to look at what they achieved during World War II: American technology and production catapulted over what would have taken decades to do under ordinary conditions and presented us with a world in 1945 that was completely different from the late 1930s.

What should the rest of us do? Two things come to mind. First, we should brace for change. It is inevitable. It will appear in changes to the climate and to the way we generate and use energy. Second, we should be prepared to absorb these with appropriate sang-froid. Some will be difficult to deal with, like rising seas, but many others could be positive. New technologies have a way of bettering our lives in ways we cannot anticipate. There is no convincing, demonstrated reason to believe that our evolving future will be worse than our present, assuming careful management of the challenges and risks. History is replete with examples of us humans getting out of tight spots. The winners tended to be realistic, pragmatic and flexible; the losers were often in denial of the threat.

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/cancer-and-climate-change.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/piers-sellers-climate-change-astronaut-before-the-flood-btf
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-remembers-nasa-scientist-astronaut-piers-sellers
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Wczoraj administrator NASA, Charles Bolden, wydał oświadczenie w związku ze śmiercią Sellersa: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-remembers-nasa-scientist-astronaut-piers-sellers.



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Piers Sellers most recently served as the deputy director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate and acting director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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« Odpowiedź #7 dnia: Grudzień 25, 2016, 12:38 »
Piers Sellers (1955 – 2016)
PRZEZ KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA W DNIU 25 GRUDNIA 2016

Dwudziestego trzeciego grudnia zmarł astronauta Piers Sellers, uczestnik trzech misji promów kosmicznych.

Piers Sellers urodził się 11 kwietnia 1955 roku w Wielkiej Brytanii. W latach siedemdziesiątych zdobył uprawnienia lotnicze w brytyjskiej Royal Air Force. W 1982 roku przeniósł się do USA, gdzie rozpoczął prace dla NASA jako meteorolog, w szczególności interesując się tematyką klimatologii.

Od 1984 roku Piers Sellers aplikował do korpusu astronautów, ale największy problemem miał z obywatelstwo. W 1991 zmienił obywatelstwo na amerykańskie, zaś w 1996 roku został przyjęty do szkolenia astronautycznego.

Piers Sellers brał udział w trzech misjach promów kosmicznych do Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej:
– STS-112 (Atlantis) w październiku 2002 roku,
– STS-121 (Discovery) w lipcu 2006 roku,
– STS-132 (Atlantis) w maju 2010 roku.

Piers Sellers otrzymał najważniejsze odznaczenie NASA – Distinguished Service Medal / NASA Goddard

Łącznie Piers Sellers spędził na orbicie 35 dni i 9 godzin. W trakcie swoich misji wykonał sześć spacerów kosmicznych o łącznym czasie ponad 41 godzin.

W styczniu 2016 roku u astronauty zdiagnozowano zaawansowany rak trzustki. Przez cały 2016 rok Piers Sellers aktywnie uczestniczył w informowaniu o zagrożeniach jakie niosą antropogeniczne zmiany ziemskiego klimatu – zarówno przed amerykańskimi politykami jak i uczniami czy studentami. W czerwcu Piers Sellers otrzymał najwyższe oznaczenie NASA – Distinguished Service Medal.

Zmarł w wieku 61 lat.

Źródło: http://kosmonauta.net/2016/12/39068/

EDIT: w Cygnus NG-17 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4949.msg173736#msg173736
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