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Kjell Norwood Lindgren, the world’s first Taiwanese-American astronaut is visiting Taiwan, revisiting places from his childhood. Lindgren was born in Taipei to a Taiwanese mother and a Swedish-American father, then a military officer for the US in Taichung. That’s where he spent the first three years of his life. On Thursday he visited the city, and paid a visit to Liu’s Bakery, which was the bakery that invented Taiwan’s ever-popular Apple Bread. There, he presented the 101-year-old-founder with an official NASA badge for providing bread delivery services to the US officers in Taiwan back in the day. Let’s hear more.

Kjell N. Lindgren
NASA astronaut
It is such an honor to be here, and to be with “Bread Uncle.” Thank you for your service to the community, to the military families. I think I ate your bread when I was little. And so I have been able to grow up strong enough to be an astronaut. So thank you for your service.

Liu Che-chi
Liu’s Bakery founder
Do you see that picture? That’s Mr. Fullerton, who helped me sell bread.

Lindgren holds a doctorate of medicine from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a bachelor’s degree from the US Air Force Academy. He first served as a surgeon in NASA, and in 2009 was officially selected to be trained as an astronaut. Since then, he has been at the International Space Station twice, and has tallied a total of 311 days in space. He’s completed two space walks and even experimented with growing lettuce on the space station.

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