Barry DiGregorio is an astrobiologist who has authored three books on Mars. He spent ten years as a Research Associate for the Cardiff Centre of Astrobiology at Cardiff University in Wales. In 2010 DiGregorio was made an Honorary Research Fellow for the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology in the UK. Since 2000 Mr. DiGregorio has been the Director and Founder for the planetary protection group International Committee Against Mars Sample Return.
Barry also composes space music in his spare time and has released thirteen albums. In 1995 he composed and recorded Guitar Sonata for Zero-G Listeners in which NASA's first woman Space Shuttle pilot, Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, took his music into space with her on her maiden flight aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
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