Dr. David Wynn-Williams, age 55, died on March 24, 2002. He was hit by a car while jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an astrobiologist with the Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA Ames Research Center. He was studying the capability of microbes to adapt to environmental extremes, including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global warming.
Alberto Behar: NASA Robotics Expert Who Helped Prove Water Existed on Mars
A Career in Planetary Robotics Alberto Behar was a 47-year-old robotics expert who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Over the course of his career, he contributed to two Mars missions and spent years developing robots capable of...
