Ed Lu

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Edward T. Lu
Ed Lu
Astronaut
Nationality American
Born July 1, 1963
Springfield, Massachusetts
Other occupation Physicist
Space time 205d 23h 18m
Selection 1994 NASA Group
Missions STS-84, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2, Expedition 7
Mission
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Edward Tsang Lu (simplified Chinese: 卢杰; traditional Chinese: 盧傑; pinyin: Lú Jié) (born July 1, 1963) is an American physicist and astronaut, a veteran of two space shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the International Space Station.

Raised in Webster, New York, Lu attended R. L. Thomas High School, where he was a member of the wrestling team and graduated in 1980. Later, Lu earned a degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a doctoral degree in applied physics from Stanford University in 1989. Ed Lu is a member of the Psi chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Cornell. Lu is a specialist in solar physics and did postdoctoral work at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii before being selected for NASA's astronaut corps in 1994. Lu flew on space shuttle missions STS-84 in 1997 and STS-106 in 2000, in which he carried out a six-hour spacewalk to perform construction work on the International Space Station. Lu spent six months in space in 2003 as part of ISS Expedition 7, with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

On August 10, 2007, Dr. Lu announced he was retiring from NASA to work at Google. [1]

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  1. ^ Beutel, Allard. "Astronaut Ed Lu Leaves NASA", NASA, 2007-08-10. Retrieved on 2007-08-12. 
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