Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger

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Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 6, 2004
( 19th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: April 5, 2010
Landing: April 20, 2010
Time in space: 15d 02h 47min
retired on June 13, 2014
Space flights

Dorothy Marie "Dottie" Metcalf-Lindenburger (born May 2, 1975 in Colorado Springs , State of Colorado , USA ) is a former American astronaut . She was selected as a teacher within the Educator Astronaut Project .

Life

Metcalf-Lindenburger received a bachelor's degree in geology from Whitman College in Washington in 1997 . At the time of selection, she was a geography, astronomy and cross-country skiing teacher at Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver , Washington .

Astronaut activity

STS-131

On December 5, 2008, Metcalf-Lindenburger was named as the mission specialist for the STS-131 mission . It took off on April 5, 2010 and landed on April 20, 2010.

Other NASA activities

In June 2012, she headed the NASA NEEMO 16 mission (“NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations”) in the “ Aquarius ” habitat of the US weather and oceanography agency , which is to explore the possibility of a space mission to an asteroid.

Private

Metcalf-Lindenburger is married and the couple has one child. In her spare time she has already run several marathons. She was also a singer in the astronaut rock band Max Q .

See also

Web links

Commons : Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA biography of Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger , accessed on November 16, 2009 (English; PDF).
  2. ↑ NASA Assigns Astronaut Crews for Future Space Shuttle Missions. NASA, December 5, 2008, accessed November 16, 2009 .
  3. ^ STS-131 Mission Information. NASA, April 20, 2010, accessed April 2, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Seidler: Simulated space mission 20,000 millimeters under the sea. Spiegel Online , June 21, 2012, accessed June 21, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Biographies of astronauts in the USA: Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger. www.spacefacts.de, July 5, 2009, accessed November 16, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Metcalf-Lindenburger, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metcalf-Lindenburger, Dorothy Marie (full name); Metcalf-Lindenburger, Dottie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Colorado Springs , Colorado , United States