Jim Daniels

Jim Daniels was an astronaut on Mars Probe 6.

Biography
Daniels was partnered on the Mars Probe 6 mission with future Space Security Service head George Carrington.

He was accidentally killed on Mars by aliens, who did not realise that their touch was fatal to humans. As a result, a terrified Carrington became convinced that the aliens intended on invading Earth. (TV: The Ambassadors of Death)

Behind the scenes

 * The Mars Probe missions are ignored by the Doctor Who television story The Waters of Mars, which referred to the human colony founded in 2058 as being made up of the "very first humans on Mars". Further complicating matters, an on-screen obituary in The Waters of Mars mentions that the captain of the Bowie Base One colony, Adelaide Brooke, along with two other unidentified astronauts, had already landed on Mars when Adelaide was 42 in the year 2041.