Don Lind

Lind received a Bachelor of Science degree with high honors in Physics from the University of Utah in 1953 and a Ph.D. in High Energy Nuclear Physics in 1964 from the University of California, Berkeley; performed post-doctoral study at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, in 1975-1976.

Lind earned the rank of Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He served four years on active duty with the Navy at San Diego and later aboard the carrier USS Hancock. He received his wings in 1957.

Before his selection as an astronaut, he worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a space physicist. He had been with Goddard since 1964 and was involved in experiments to determine the nature and properties of low-energy particles within the Earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space. Previous to this, he worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, doing research in pion-nucleon scattering, a type of basic high energy particle interaction.

An American scientist and a former NASA astronaut, Lind was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1974.

Lind participated in the Spacelab-3 science mission (1985). This was the first operational Spacelab mission. The seven man crew conducted investigations in crystal growth, atmospheric trace gas spectroscopy, solar and planetary atmospheric simulation, cosmic rays, laboratory animals and human medical monitoring, and other tests. Dr. Lind developed and conducted an experiment to make unique 3-dimensional video recordings of the earth's aurora.