Derrick Pitts

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Jan 22, 1955 (70 years old)

Derrick Pitts

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Movie 2021

Looking for Life on Mars

NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life...

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53min

Movie 2020

Touching the Asteroid

Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid...

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51min

Movie 2019

Pluto and Beyond

Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft...

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50min

Movie 2017

Miniverse

What if you could get behind the wheel and race...

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Biography

Derrick Pitts is an American astronomer and science communicator. Pitts studied at St. Lawrence University and has been employed at the Franklin Institute since 1978 where he is chief astronomer and director of the institute's Fels Planetarium.

Acting

2021

Looking for Life on Mars

2020

Touching the Asteroid