STS-121 – Spaceflight Now

September 17, 2021

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Piers Sellers, shuttle astronaut and renowned climate researcher, dies at 61

December 26, 2016

Former astronaut Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist who flew on three space shuttle missions to help construct the International Space Station, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.

OTD…July 4 and STS-121

July 4, 2015

#OTD in 2006…A star-spangled start to Discovery’s STS-121 mission