Don L. Lind
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born |
May 18, 1930 Midvale, Utah, U.S. |
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Other names
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Don Leslie Lind |
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Other occupation
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Naval aviator, scientist |
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University of Utah, B.S. 1953 UC Berkeley, Ph.D. 1964 |
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| Rank | Commander, USNR |
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Time in space
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7d 00h 08m |
| Selection | 1966 NASA Group 5 |
| Missions | STS-51-B |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | April 1986 |
Don Leslie Lind, Ph.D. (born May 18, 1930), (Cmdr, USNR, Ret.), is an American scientist and a former naval officer and aviator, and NASA astronaut.
Lind was born May 18, 1930. He attended Midvale Elementary School and graduated from Jordan High School. He received a Bachelor of Science degree with high honors in Physics from the University of Utah in 1953. At the United States Navy Officer Candidate School Lind jokingly requested flight training and was unable to change his assignment, but found that he enjoyed flying. As a Naval Aviator, Lind volunteered to take high-altitude photo emulsions of cosmic rays for the University of California, Berkeley during flights. This helped him enroll at Berkeley, where Lind researched pion-nucleon scattering in the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and earned a Ph.D. in high-energy nuclear physics in 1964. During a leave of absence from NASA, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute from 1975 to 1976.
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