Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Colin Pillinger (born 1943) is a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK. He graduated with a BSc and a PhD at the University of Wales Swansea. He is principal investigator for the Beagle 2 Mars lander project. He was elected an FRS in 1993 and made a CBE in 2003. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.