Don Lind, born May 18, 1930 in Midvale, Utah, went into space aboard the space shuttle Challenger (STS-51-B) as mission specialist in April-May 1985. One of the mission's objectives was the deployment of the Northern Utah Satellite (NUSAT).
First row (L-R): Robert Overmyer, Frederick Gregory
Back row (L-R): Don Lind, Taylor Wang, Norman Thagard, William Thornton, Lodewijk van den Berg
Mission patch
Space Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985, was the seventh flight of Challenger. Its crew consisted of Commander Robert Overmyer, Pilot Frederick Gregory, Don Lind, Norman Thagard, William Thornton, Lodewijk van den Berg, and Taylor Wang.
It was the second flight of the European Space Agency's Spacelab. Two squirrel monkeys and 24 rats in special cages accompanied the astronauts in space.
