General / Off-Topic bad news from space

Just on the BBC - Prof Colin Pillinger has died of a brain haemorrage. :(

An inspiration for space travellers everywhere.

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Sir.Tj

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I was sorry to hear that as well.

Moved to appropriate forum.
 
A real shame, always liked seeing him on TV.

Not enough scientists with decent west-country accents.
 
There is a tribute of David on the homepage of the site ED

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Saw this on BBC earlier myself. Very sad :( Loved his style...

I hope FD find it in their hearts to immortalise him in the game somewhere.
 
To close off this sad news, from the latest newsletter.... Well done FD <3

A Tribute to Colin Pillinger

From David Braben:

“I was very sorry to hear of the death yesterday morning of the wonderful Colin Pillinger. I had the honour to appear in a book with him called ‘The Backroom Boys,’ written by Francis Spufford. He was an inspirational, charismatic and eccentric character, managing to get a tiny spacecraft into space for millions of pounds as opposed to hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. It is a real shame that it crashed (something not uncommon in such exploration missions), and so there was not the succession of cheap space craft exploring the Solar system we had all hoped for. Such an excellent evangelist for space exploration and for science generally will be sadly missed.

We have renamed one of the stations in Alpha 4 ‘Beagle 2 Landing’ in honour of him, in much the same way as I named the planet Feynman shortly after the death of the excellent scientist of that name in Frontier: Elite 2.”
 
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