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Don L. Lind Interviewed by Rebecca Wright Houston, Texas – 27 May 2005 '''Wright:''' Today is May 27th, 2005. This interview is being conducted with Dr. Don Lind in Houston, Texas, for the NASA Johnson Space ... , it was when we were assigned to Skylab. '''Wright:''' I’m sorry. I meant Skylab. '''Lind:''' In Skylab, we had another great disappointment. Washington makes these incredibly “wise” decisions—they decided ...

... = Don Leslie Lind titlestyle = image = Image:Astronaut_lind.jpg 200px imagestyle = caption = Don Leslie Lind captionstyle = headerstyle = background: ccf; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Don Leslie Lind ... spectroscopy, solar and planetary atmospheric simulation, cosmic rays, laboratory animals and human medical monitoring. Dr. Lind developed and conducted an experiment to make unique 3-dimensional video recordings of the earth ...

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... American Rockwell as support people. I think they were headed up by Bill L. William Blair. I don’t know how much experience they had before they came here, but ostensibly they ... communicator , tell that blankety-blank-blank,” something or other. Jack John L. Swigert was the CapCom. He says, “Flight, we don’t want to put that on the air.” It just didn ... think Anne L. Accola was the only woman in our division at the time that was an engineer, early on at least. There might have been other one, I don’t recollect ...

... we had the Shuttle-Mir Program going. The Shuttle-Mir Program Manager was Frank L. Culbertson. I don't know if we helped him think this or he thought it on his ... around and looked, there wasn't a soul in sight anywhere. Everybody had scattered. I don't know if that says something about some of their backgrounds or what. Whatever—there ... for the stuff that they don't do day to day that makes their programs go. It's been a struggle. The good news was Mike Michael L. Coats has been our ...

... , she thought all astronauts got divorced and she wasn't real crazy about that. I don't think the divorce rate's any different than society in general, it just gets ... :''' Why don't you tell us about those first few days in the Astronaut Corps once you finally arrived in Houston and showed up to the Center. '''Coats:''' Al Alan L. Bean ... learned a lot from the civilians too. First of all, “why.” In the military you don't ask why, you just go accomplish the mission. Well, civilians were sitting there, “Now ...

... all that sort of stuff when the phone rang. It was—I don’t remember who called anymore, probably Duane L. Ross asking if I wanted to come interview. This would have ... kit. I remember years later somebody complaining about the Nivea cream. I said, “Gee, I don’t know how that happened.” It was too greasy or something. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' What typically ... I was very pleasantly surprised about. Everybody was warm, receptive. Carolyn L. Huntoon was assigned to the women. I don’t know if other people have told you. I think she was ...

... hired some additional people. When I came on board, there was myself and Ed Edward L. Dunbar Jr. in the Agena area where I was. Ed Dunbar and Bill William E ... that with any of the other interviewers? '''Rusnak:''' Yes, on a basic level. But why don't you go ahead and explain it for the record. '''Carlton:''' Mission rules took a ... downwards, we did not uncover the fact of what was going to happen. I don't think. I don't know. When I saw that, I just thought, "Well, you know, now ...

... times a year. Our families all get together. It’s almost like we—and Jerry L. Ross. When I’m down here, I always see him. To me, it was sort ... , but there is still an incredible issue with targeting young women so they don’t decide that they don’t want to do math in junior high school. They were good at ... flight controllers and flight directors, learning to work with the mission control team. '''Cleave:''' I don’t know. I think of them as being engineers. Laughter They are engineers. The guys ...

... Russians accept you as a scientist? '''Huntoon:''' At first, in a suspicious manner, and I don’t think the Russians were too different from Americans, when you first meet someone and ... lot about management there. It was during that time that we had the Challenger STS51-L disaster. So that put us all through some paces none of us predicted or would ... it does now for keeping things internal and keeping things close. NASA scientists and engineers don’t mean to do that. It’s just dissemination has never been a priority for ...

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