Ft. Collins High grad to be first 'Lambkin' in space

DENVER (DP) - Fort Collins High School graduate Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger will be the first Lambkin in space, and Clyde, a stuffed lamb in a handmade spacesuit, will be right there with her.

"There's never been a Lambkin in space; I'm sure of it." Kathy Johnson, of Fort Collins High, about Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, above (Photo by Robert Markowitz )Fort Collins High School graduate Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger will be the first Lambkin in space, and Clyde, a stuffed lamb in a handmade spacesuit, will be right there with her.

Metcalf-Lindenburger, a science teacher until she was accepted into NASA's astronaut training program, wrote to school principal Mark Eversole requesting a "banner, pendant or stuffed Clyde" to take with her in March, when she flies on the space shuttle.

School staffers sprang into action, commissioning a banner with the school name and both the prancing and fierce versions of the fluffy Lambkin mascot, nicknamed Clyde.

For more about Metcalf-Lindenburger and her journey to space, CLICK HERE for Kristen Browning-Blas' story in the Denver Post.