English: NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, part of the crew that’s scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in May, will took part in a NASA Television news conference and media interview on Wednesday, March 18, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Board certified in emergency and aerospace medicine, Lindgren is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and Colorado State University. He was a member of the academy’s “Wings of Blue” parachute team. Lindgren received his medical degree from the University of Colorado. Lindgren began at Johnson Space Center as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009.
Astronaut Lindgren, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch to the space station aboard a Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft May 26 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to round out the Expedition 44 crew. The trio will return to Earth in November as part of the Expedition 45 crew.