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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ A sad loss

Posted by: Bill Harris Jul 16 2015, 09:55 AM

I'm surprised that this has not been mentioned here:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/15/claudia-alexander-1959-2015

--Bill

Posted by: MahFL Jul 16 2015, 10:35 AM

People have been focused on the NH flyby.
The picture on the Rosetta site of her is misleading, it looks nothing like what she did when she gave a Rosetta presentation.
May she rest in peace.

Posted by: CAP-Team Jul 16 2015, 12:35 PM

I saw the Rosetta mission documentary on National Geographic the other day, I saw her in that documentary serveral times. A couple of days before that I read on Emily Lakdawalla's twitter feed that she had passed away.
Rest in peace.

Posted by: Bill Harris Sep 28 2015, 04:52 PM

And Rosetta tributes to departed colleagues:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/09/28/rosetta-science-working-team-dedication-to-deceased-colleagues/

--Bill

Posted by: edwardpnunez Jul 12 2016, 05:00 AM

It is an interesting fact that it was a movie that inspired her to come to this field. In a NASA interview, she said the film Fantasia ignited her passion for other worlds at a very young age.
She said the movie “opened an imaginative pathway of wonder for me about worlds other than Earth — primitive worlds — and how huge geologic forces can impact life forms there.”