From the estate of Doctors John & Kay Lindsay

John completed a mission to Antarctica in 1966/67 resulting in a mountain peak in the Queen Alexandra Range being named after him. In 1969 Kay joined the US Antarctic Program as part of Operation Deep Freeze and, along with four others, formed the first all female Antarctic research team creating history by becoming one of the first women to set foot at the south geographic pole. The same year, John joined the Lunar Science Institute in Houston providing scientific training for the Apollo Astronauts and studying lunar samples as they were returned to Earth. Returning to Antarctica in 1972, John led a mission to study landforms as part of the initial preparation for the future Viking Martian landings and was accepted onto the astronaut training programme just before leaving NASA. In recognition of their achievements, both John and Kay were awarded the United States Polar Medal for Antarctic Service and John was also awarded the NASA Achievement Award. They lived and worked for many years between Canberra and Houston with Kay gaining her Doctorate in Zoology during this time. On returning to Australia in 1984, John became Senior Principal Research Scientist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources, as well as Adjunct Professor with the Earth Sciences Department of Oxford University Sadly, John lost Kay to cancer in 2001 and he later returned to Houston to work with the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Much of his research was associated with the planning of NASA's manned Martian expeditions and the recognition and identification of early life forms. He was also researching lunar dust as part of NASA's planned return to the moon.