Professor Colin Pillinger
Principal Investigator, Beagle 2, Mars Express.
Having begun his career on the Apollo Programme, analysing samples of moon rock, Colin is now working with NASA to develop a craft to search for water on the dark side of the moon. The long-term plan is to establish a permanent station at the lunar south pole.
Colin also has an ongoing involvement with ESA's Rosetta mission, seeking to expand our knowledge of the origins of the Solar System. After a ten-year journey the spacecraft is programmed to rendezvous with a comet, drop a lander onto the surface and travel with it towards the sun - sending back a mass of scientific data.
In corporate lectures and after dinner speeches the Open University Professor of Planetary Sciences shows his undiminished enthusiasm. He admits that innovation isn't easy (after all Edison first discovered 1500 ways how not to make a light bulb), but believes lack of resources needn't always impede progress: "You just have to think harder."
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