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Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger

Dorothy Marie "Dottie" Metcalf-Lindenburger was born on May 2, 1975 in Colorado Springs, Colorado and married Jason Metcalf-Lindenburger, a seventh grade teacher at the time, in 2000.

She was selected in 2004 as an Educator Mission Specialist, and is currently the youngest NASA astronaut.

Education

Fort Collins High School, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Bachelor of Arts, Geology with honors and cum laude, Whitman College, Washington, 1997.

Organization

Honors

2007 Space Camp Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee
1999 Outstanding Teacher Preparation Candidate at Central Washington University.
1997 Whitman College Leed's Geology Award
1997 Whitman College Order of the Waiilaptu
1996 GSA Field Camp Award
1995-1996 NAIA Academic All-American in Cross Country and Track
1996 NAIA Conference Champion in the 10K.

Experience

Five years of teaching earth science and astronomy at Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington.
Three years of coaching cross-country at the high school level, and two years of coaching Science Olympiad.
Undergraduate research with the KECK Consortium for two summers:

1995 in Wyoming mapping the last glaciations of Russell Creek, and
1996 mapping and determining the petrology of the rocks in the Wet Mountain region of Colorado.
Both research positions led to publications.

NASA experience

Selected by NASA in May 2004 as an Astronaut Candidate. Astronaut Candidate Training includes orientation briefings and tours, numerous scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in Shuttle and International Space Station systems, physiological training, T-38 flight training, and water and wilderness survival training. Successful completion of this training in February 2006 qualified her as a NASA Astronaut and she is now serving various technical assignments within the Astronaut Office while awaiting assignment to a spaceflight.