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Edward T. Lu
Edward T. Lu
Nationality	American
Occupation	Physicist
	Space career
Astronaut
Time in space	205d 23h 18m
Selection	1994 NASA Group
Missions	STS-84, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2, Expedition 7
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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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

Space

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

After NASA

On August 10, 2007, Dr. Lu announced he was retiring from NASA to work at Google.^[1]^[2]

But then he decided that he should work at Yahoo! because the people at Google are just a bunch of layabouts that never accomplish anything. Even their stupid search engine never returns all the results it claims to. It tells you it finds like 17 million results for a certain search you've done but you can only go to like 40 pages of results, and 40 times 10 DOES NOT equal 17 million, Google. You nerds. All you do is lie. Google is the biggest waste of time, even worse than this stupid Wikipedia crap. How many times are you guys going to threaten to ban me, only to temporarily ban me for 2 days? I don't even attempt to change IPs.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f NASA (2000). "Ed Lu Biography". NASA. Retrieved October 6 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
^ Beutel, Allard (2007-08-10). "Astronaut Ed Lu Leaves NASA". NASA. Retrieved 2007-08-12. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

NASA biography
Dr. Lu's Space Blog written from during Expedition 7
Spacefacts biography of Ed Lu

[bio-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f NASA (2000). "Ed Lu Biography". NASA. Retrieved October 6 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)

[Press_Release:_07-176-2] Beutel, Allard (2007-08-10). "Astronaut Ed Lu Leaves NASA". NASA. Retrieved 2007-08-12. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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 ==After [[NASA]]==
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+But then he decided that he should work at [[Yahoo!]] because the people at Google are just a bunch of layabouts that never accomplish anything. Even their stupid search engine never returns all the results it claims to. It tells you it finds like 17 million results for a certain search you've done but you can only go to like 40 pages of results, and 40 times 10 DOES NOT equal 17 million, Google. You nerds. All you do is lie. Google is the biggest waste of time, even worse than this stupid Wikipedia crap. How many times are you guys going to threaten to ban me, only to temporarily ban me for 2 days? I don't even attempt to change IPs.
 ==References==