I find your lack of Palisade peaches disturbing: NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren corrals the supply of fresh fruit that arrived at the International Space Station August 25 on the JAXA (Japanese Space Agency) Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle. Visiting cargo ships often carry a small cache of fresh food for crew members aboard the International Space Station. (NASA)
The guy in charge of the space-based science that will influence how we send humans to Mars is featured in .
He’s also a Colorado-educated space doctor who, according to Colorado State University — where, in 1996, Lindgren earned an M.S. in Cardiovascular Physiology — is also .
The Jedi crew of Expedition 45 (clockwise from top right): Sergei Volkov, Mikhail Kornienko, Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Kononenko. (NASA)
Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, a , arrived at ISS on July 22. His primary mission is to run experiments to help us understand the effects of space radiation — caused by subatomic particles from the Sun and other sources — have on the human body.
And CSU will be right there with him. The university was granted $9 million from NASA to establish a facility that will assess how low doses of neutron radiation exposure over long periods impact humans. That study is being lead by Michael Weil, professor in CSU’s Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences. Another team of researchers are . Among them is Susan Bailey, associate professor in the same department as Weil, who will be studying the chromosomes of astronaut Scott Kelly compared to those of his identical twin brother, Mark. She’ll also be studying Lindgren, who will be sending blood samples down to Earth via ISS cargo resupply vehicles.
Corrective surgery on . Flashbacks to my surgery rotation .
— Kjell Lindgren (@astro_kjell)
In addition to his CSU degree, Lindgren earned a B.S. in Biology, with a minor in Mandarin Chinese, from the in Colorado Springs in 1995, and a Doctorate of Medicine from the in 2002. Outside of Colorado, he did a three-year residency in emergency medicine, did a Post-Doctoral Fellowship and earned a Master of Health Informatics from University of Minnesota, and did a two-year residency in aerospace medicine and earned a Master of Public Health in 2007 from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.
Yeah, the Force is strong with this one. Perhaps he can use his Jedi skills to corral the fruit with which he’s pictured in today’s ? Do. Or do not, Kjell. There is no try.
Follow along with Lindgren’s ISS adventure on his Twitter feed:
