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Colin Pillinger

January 2015

  • Beagle 2 spacecraft

    Beagle 2 spacecraft found intact on surface of Mars after 11 years

  • Martin Rowson

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the discovery of Beagle 2 on Mars – cartoon

    Martin Rowson

December 2014

  • Colin Pillinger with a model of Beagle 2 at the Lander Operations Planning Centre on 27 November 27, 2003 in Milton Keynes.

    Obituaries of 2014
    Colin Pillinger remembered by Monica Grady

    Monica Grady, an Open University colleague of the space scientist, pays tribute to his inspirational work and offbeat style

8 May 2014

  • Colin Pillinger with a model of Beagle 2 in 2003.

    Colin Pillinger obituary

  • Martha Gill

    Want more children to study science? Look to Colin Pillinger for inspiration

    Martha Gill
  • Professor Colin Pillinger

    Colin Pillinger showed courage in face of disaster after Beagle 2 failure

    Tim Radford
  • Colin Pillinger

    Beagle 2 scientist Colin Pillinger dies aged 70

January 2012

  • A meteor streaking across a cloudy sky

    Colin Pillinger will use meteorites to make an impact at Faraday Lecture

    'Stones from the sky', this year's Royal Society Faraday Lecture, will explore what meteorites can tell us about the solar system

March 2011

  • Cover: My Life on Mars by Colin Pillinger

    Science Weekly
    Science Weekly podcast: What became of Beagle 2?

    The man who lost a spacecraft; Lester Brown on food bubbles; Alzheimer's; a mission to Mercury; and responding to national emergencies

March 2010

  • Professor Colin Pillinger

    From laughing stock to lift-off ... at last

    Colin Pillinger

    The launch of the UK Space Agency is two decades late but is still significant step, says Colin Pillinger

May 2008

  • Britain should be leading the search for life on Mars

    Colin Pillinger

    Colin Pillinger: Had Europe fully backed the Beagle project we, rather than Nasa, would be on the verge of solving space's greatest mystery

May 2007

  • The science of Star Wars

    Ever wondered if Star Wars' science fiction could become science fact? On the film's 30th anniversary Chris Hatherill invites Beagle 2 scientist Colin Pillinger and inventor James Dyson to feel the force...

October 2005

  • I feel your pain, ice mission CryoSat

    Colin Pillinger: Scientists were yesterday mourning the loss of CryoSat, the British-led space mission to monitor the earth's ice sheets.

July 2004

  • Pillinger plans second mission to Mars

    Colin Pillinger, the Open University professor who inspired the ill-fated Beagle 2 mission to Mars, has quietly rebuilt his team for another attempt in 2007.

November 2003

  • Man with a mission

    It may look like a garden barbecue, or a giant pocket watch. But it is, in fact, a space probe - on Christmas Day it will land on Mars and start exploring. Here, Colin Pillinger, the British scientist behind this shoestring project, tells the story of the Beagle 2.

December 2002

  • Colin Pillinger

    His British-built inter-planetary object is soon to go out of this world. Robin McKie meets the man on a mission to investigate Mars.

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