British-born astronaut and climate scientist Piers Sellers has died at the age of 61.
Dr Sellers, who flew on three space shuttle missions between 2002 and 2010, died on Friday morning in Houston of pancreatic cancer, Nasa said.
The Nasa climate scientist, originally from Crowborough in East Sussex, gained American citizenship to fulfil a childhood dream of flying into space.
In January Dr Sellers wrote an emotional article for the New York Times about his cancer diagnosis, while he also featured in Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change documentary earlier this year...
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