 don leslie lind (born may 18, 1930 in midvale, utah) is an american scientist and a former nasa astronaut. ==education== lind 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,"honor roll" u-news & views, university of utah alumni association, august 2009.moulton, kristen. "utah astronaut recalls his role in moon walk" salt lake tribune, 20 july 2009. where lind researched pion-nucleon scattering in the lawrence radiation laboratory and earned a doctor of philosophy degree in physics in 1964. he performed his post-doctoral study at the geophysical institute, university of alaska, from 1975 to 1976. ==navy== lind held the rank of commander in the naval reserve. he received his wings of gold in 1957 and served four years on active duty with the navy at san diego and later aboard the carrier uss hancock. during that time lind logged more than 4,500 hours of flight time, 4,000 of which were in a jet aircraft. ==nasa career== from 1964, lind worked at the nasa goddard space flight center as a space physicist. he was involved in experiments to determine the nature and properties of low-energy particles within the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space. lind applied for nasa's third group of astronauts but did not have enough flight hours, and was too old for [[nasa astronaut group 4|the
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