Ed Lu

Infobox Astronaut
name =Edward T. Lu


type =Astronaut
nationality =American
date_birth =July 1, 1963
date_death =
place_birth =Springfield, Massachusetts
place_death =
occupation =Physicist
rank =
selection =1994 NASA Group
time =205d 23h 18m
mission =STS-84, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2, Expedition 7
insignia =|

Edward Tsang Lu (zh-stp |s=卢杰 |t=盧傑 |p=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.Cite web|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lu.html|title=Ed Lu Biography|accessyear=2008|accessmonthday=October 6|publisher=NASA|year=2000|author=NASA]

Education

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 where he lettered in wrestling. He then received 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.

pace

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. Having been flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-2, Lu spent six months in space in 2003 as part of ISS Expedition 7, with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

In his spare time while at Nasa, Lu founded the B612 Foundation whose goal is to be able to significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid, in a controlled manner, by 2015.

After Nasa

On August 10, 2007, Dr. Lu announced he was retiring from NASA to work at Google.cite news | first=Allard | last=Beutel | coauthors= | title=Astronaut Ed Lu Leaves NASA | date=2007-08-10 | publisher=NASA | url =http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/aug/HQ_07176_Ed_Lu_Leaves.html | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-12 | language = ]

References

External links

* [http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/index.html Dr. Lu's Space Blog] written from during Expedition 7
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/lu_edward.htm Spacefacts biography of Ed Lu]