Kjell Lindgren

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Kjell Lindgren
Kjell Lindgren
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 29, 2009
( 20th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: July 22, 2015
Landing: December 11, 2015
Time in space: 141d 16h 09m
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 15h 4min
Space flights

Kjell Norwood Lindgren (born January 23, 1973 in Taipei , Taiwan ) is an American doctor and spaceman .

Life and education

Lindgren lived in the American Midwest , but spent most of his childhood in England . There he also attended Lakenheath High School on the local military airfield . After graduating from James W. Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax , Virginia, he studied biology with a minor in Mandarin at the United States Air Force Academy . In 1996, he earned a Masters of Science degree in cardiovascular physiology from Colorado State University . 2002 followed the doctor of medicine from the University of Colorado Denver .

This was followed by three years of training in emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis , Minnesota. In 2006 he received a Masters in Medical Informatics from the University of Minnesota . He received a Masters in Public Health from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) in 2007 and completed his training in Aviation and Space Medicine in 2008 . Lindgren is a certified specialist in emergency medicine as well as aviation and space medicine.

During his time at the US Air Force Academy he was a member of the "Wings of Blue" skydiver . For his master's thesis in cardiovascular physiology, he conducted research at the Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale , California. From 2007 he worked as an aviation surgeon for the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. There he supported the ISS training in Star City in Russia and survival training in the Black Sea in Ukraine .

Astronaut activity

Lindgren was elected to NASA's 20th astronaut group on June 29, 2009. He completed his basic training in June 2011. He then worked as CAPCOM and in the field of spacecraft operations (EVA).

In July 2013, Lindgren was nominated for a long-term stay on board the ISS. On July 22, 2015, he took off for the ISS in the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft together with the Russian commander Oleg Kononenko and the Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui . There he worked until December 11, 2015 as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 44 and 45 .

On October 28th and November 6th, Lindgren made two space exits with ISS commander Scott Kelly . The focus of the first EVA was on various works to improve the space station. This also included attaching a heat protection cover to the alpha magnet spectrometer . This state-of-the-art particle detector for investigating cosmic rays was installed on the space station in 2011.

During the second EVA with Kelly, they tried to restore the original configuration in the ammonia cooling circuit in the port side of the  lattice structure . During an earlier spacecraft mission in November 2012, attempts were made to locate a leak in the circuit, but the leak has now been located in a different part.

In June 2017 he was a participant in the underwater mission NEEMO-22 .

Private

Lindgren is married and has three children. His hobbies include family , running , reading , movies , photography , amateur astronomy , computers, and church activities. Like many astronauts, Kjell Lindgren is a radio amateur with the amateur radio call sign KO5MOS.

Web links

Commons : Kjell Lindgren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joshua Buck, Jay Bolden: NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members. NASA, July 10, 2013, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ KO5MOS in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) database
personal data
SURNAME Lindgren, Kjell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindgren, Kjell Norwood (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd January 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Taipei , Republic of China (Taiwan)