Claudia Alexander (1959–2015)
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/15/claudia-alexander-1959-2015
It is with great sadness that we share the news of Dr Claudia Alexander’s passing on 11 July 2015. Claudia worked for NASA at JPL. She was an eminent planetary scientist and was deeply involved with the Rosetta Mission as US Rosetta project scientist. She was passionate about outreach, including engaging amateur astronomers through the ground-based observing campaign of Rosetta’s target comet, 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Claudia was also very well known for her role in NASA’s Galileo and Cassini projects. Here, some of her ESA colleagues pay tribute: “We have lost a great colleague and friend who will live on within us and the missions to the stars she made possible.” Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist “Although I did not know Claudia very well, I quickly noticed her strong (...)