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A veteran of three space shuttle missions, astronaut and NASA climate scientist Piers Sellers died on Friday (Dec. 23) of pancreatic cancer. He was 61. A meteorologist and project scientist before he flew into space, Sellers logged more than a month in Earth orbit and then became the deputy director for Sciences and Exploration at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
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