Kjell Lindgren (Astronaut) – Overview, Biography

Name:Kjell Lindgren
Occupation: Astronaut
Gender:Male
Birth Day: January 23,
1973
Age: 47
Birth Place: Taipei,
Taiwan
Zodiac Sign:Aquarius

Kjell Lindgren

Kjell Lindgren was born on January 23, 1973 in Taipei, Taiwan (47 years old). Kjell Lindgren is an Astronaut, zodiac sign: Aquarius. Nationality: Taiwan. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Trivia

Outside his work as an astronaut, he has also worked with the Spacecraft Communicator and Extravehicular Activity branches of NASA. 

Net Worth 2020

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Before Fame

After entering the United States Air Force Academy, he would later go on to earn a degree in biology. He would also earn a master’s in cardiovascular physiology from Colorado State University and a doctorate of medicine at the University of Colorado. 

Biography

Biography Timeline

1973

Lindgren was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1973 before moving to the Midwestern United States, but he spent most of his childhood in England. He attended Lakenheath American High School for a year before moving back to the United States and graduating from James W. Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia in 1991. After entering the United States Air Force Academy, he joined the Air Force Parachuting Team. In 1995, he received a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in Mandarin Chinese from the Air Force Academy. In 1996, he received a master of science degree in cardiovascular physiology from Colorado State University (CSU), in part for his work completing cardiovascular countermeasure research at NASA’s Space Physiology Lab. He also received a doctorate of medicine from the University of Colorado in 2002, and went on to complete a three-year residency in emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. In 2006, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship and master of health informatics (MHI) at the University of Minnesota. He also completed a master of public health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2007 and a residency in aerospace medicine in 2008.

2007

He began working for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in 2007. He went on to support ISS training operation at Star City, Russia and became the deputy crew surgeon for STS-130 and Expedition 24.

2009

In June 2009, he was one of nine astronaut candidates selected by NASA out of 3500 applications and began training as part of NASA Astronaut Group 20. The nine Americans, as well as two Canadian Space Agency candidates and three JAXA candidates, started training at the Johnson Space Center in August 2009. The 14 candidates carried trained in various different fields including T-38 flight training, Extravehicular activity training, survival, International Space Station operations and other various skills. The group completed their training and Lindgren and his 13 classmates became eligible for future flight assignments on 4 November 2011.

2013

In 2013, he began training at the Gagarin Space Center and was assigned as backup Flight Engineer for Expedition 42/43 which launched on Soyuz TMA-15M. He was later assigned to Expedition 44/45 as a flight engineer. On 22 July 2015 Lindgren launched on his first mission to the ISS alongside Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui onboard Soyuz TMA-17M. Six hours later the trio docked to the ISS, officially joining Expedition 44 alongside Soyuz TMA-16M crewmembers Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos and Scott Kelly of NASA. In November 2015, while on the ISS, Kjell played a set of bagpipes manufactured by McCallum Bagpipes Ltd as a memorial to Victor Hurst, who died in October of that year. McCallum Bagpipes was chosen to manufacture the bagpipes because they make them in plastic, which is easily sanitized and transported, ideal for space exploration. This is thought to be the first time the Great Highland bagpipes have been played in space.

2015

On 28 October 2015, Lindgren ventured outside of the ISS with Scott Kelly for his first spacewalk, the two spacewalkers completed several tasks including changing an insulating unit on one of the station’s Main Bus Switching Units (MBSU), carried out some maintenance on one of Canadarm-2’s Latching End Effector’s and prepared both of the station’s “open” Pressurized Mating Adapters ahead of the installation of two International Docking Adapters. On 6 November 2015 Lindgren ventured outside the station with Kelly again for his second spacewalk. Over the course of the 7 hour and 48-minute spacewalk, the two astronauts worked to restore a portion of the ISS’s cooling system to its primary configuration, returning ammonia coolant levels to normal in the primary and backup radiator arrays.

On 11 December 2015, he returned to Earth alongside Kononenko and Yui following 141 days in space, the Soyuz touched down on the Kazakh Steppe at night, which is rare for the Soyuz. Following landing, Lindgren and Yui returned to the Johnson Space Center in Houston to rendezvous with their families.

Lindgren is also a sci-fi fan, and in 2015 was a Special Guest at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention while aboard the ISS. He participated in the Hugo Award ceremony as a guest presenter via videoconferencing, announcing Cixin Liu’s win of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He was also a special guest at Worldcon in Helsinki 2017.

Lindgren was a Boy Scout and attained the rank of Eagle Scout. During the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Japan in 2015, Lindgren talked to a small group of Scouts via radio from the International Space Station. The Scouts asked him various questions about daily life at the Space Station and space.

2019

Lindgren served as the only member of the backup crew for the SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission, the first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. He trained as backup for both crew members, NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken and was ready to take either the Spacecraft Commander or Joint Operations Commander seat if need be. He is also currently the only known member of the backup crew for USCV-1, the first operational flight of Crew Dragon spacecraft and first operational flight of the Commercial Crew Program. On 19 March 2019 Lindgren started five weeks of training on the ISS Russian Orbital Segment for the flight at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia alongside NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.

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Currently, Kjell Lindgren is 49 years, 3 months and 29 days old. Kjell Lindgren will celebrate 50th birthday on a Monday 23rd of January 2023.

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