Launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Expedition 44/45 on 22 July 2015
Education
Air Force Academy — 1995 — B.S., Biology
Colorado State Univ. — 1996 — M.S., Cardiovascular Physiology
Univ. of Colorado — 2002 — M.D.
Univ. of Minnesota — 2006 — Post-doctoral fellowship and Master of Health Informatics (MHI)
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch — 2007 — Master of Public Health (MPH)
Employment
NASA at the Johnson Space Center — Astronaut — (2007-)
Role in the Community
The TAH story corpus preserves two community records of him, both published 2020-12-14: his encyclopedia entry [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2297-kjell-n-lindgren|TAH #2297 Kjell N. Lindgren 林其兒]] and a video record TAH videos-168: NASA Astronaut Kjell N. Lindgren — was born in Taipei, Taiwan, which the community cited specifically for his Taipei birth as a point of Taiwanese American pride.
No movement-organization activity appears in the corpus; his public record to date is as a documented honor figure rather than an organizing actor. Fresh re-greps 2026-09-20 (slice 09190400-17), 2026-09-21 (slice 09201503-4), 2026-09-22 (slice 09211507-12), and 2026-10-07 (slice 10051340-32): beyond the records above, matches are limited to the works index and unrelated false positives.