Ed Lu
- STS -84 (1997)
- STS- 106 (2000)
- Soyuz TMA -2 ( 2003) ISS Expedition 7
Edward Tsang "Ed" Lu (Chinese:卢杰and卢杰Pinyin: County Louth Jie, born July 1, 1963 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ) is a former American astronaut.
Lu spent his childhood in Honolulu, Hawaii and his youth in the town of Webster, New York. There he joined in 1980 the R. L. Thomas High School ( the official name is Webster Thomas High School ) from. He then began a degree in electrical engineering at the private Cornell University, which he finished with a bachelor in 1984. During his time at Cornell he was an active university - own wrestling team - he went for the " Big Reds " in the 60- kilogram weight class ( today he trained only ). Lu then moved to California and studied at Stanford University on. In 1989 he received his PhD in Applied Physics subject.
Lu then went for three years to Boulder (Colorado ) to the High Altitude Observatory. This facility is funded by the National Science Foundation of the United States, operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and explores the Sonne.Während his last year in Boulder, he worked simultaneously on astrophysical laboratory of the University of Colorado. In 1992, Lu at the University of Hawaii and worked until joining NASA as an astrophysicist at the city's Institute for Astronomy.
Astronauts activity
As a child, Lu was interested in the space, but the opportunity once to become an astronaut himself relegated to the realm of utopia. During his work as a scientist, he learned that one could apply quite regularly at NASA for this profession. So it was that he submitted his documents and was immediately accepted the first time.
Lu was selected as one of nine mission specialists selected with the 15th astronaut group in early December 1994. From a total of 2962 candidates who met the formal selection criteria, 121 Finalist ( inn ) en had emerged. These were in the summer of 1994, the Johnson Space Center (JSC ) to Houston in Texas to tests, interviews and medical examinations invited.
After the one-year basic education that began in March 1995, Ed Lu was assigned to the computer department of the Astronaut Office until he was appointed a few months later in the team of STS- 84. This flight took place as part of the Shuttle -Mir program in May 1997. The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked for several days on the Russian space station Mir. Essential goods were brought on board the station, and a crew exchange made: Jerry Linenger returned after four months in space back home and settled for Mike Foale back.
By the end of 1998 Lu began to prepare for his second spaceflight. STS -101 should be carried out in autumn 1999 and the third mission to the International Space Station ( ISS) to be. In early 2000, NASA announced on the tasks and the crew of this flight: STS- 106 was lifted out of the baptism and put three astronauts of STS- 101 ( Lu, Morukow, Malenchenko ) on STS -106. With these two flights, one after the other directly performed at an interval of four months, the ISS should be prepared quickly for access to his first occupation. During his second flight in September 2000, Lu and Malenchenko rose on the third day from six hours to lay cable and install an instrument boom.
In April 2003, Lu flew with his Russian colleague Malenchenko with Soyuz TMA -2 as ISS Expedition 7 again to the space station. Originally another spaceman had ( only Sergei Moschtschenko, then Alexander Kaleri ) are part of the crew, and all three should be brought with STS -114 to the ISS. When, after the misfortune of Columbia temporarily the space shuttle flights have been exposed to the ISS in February 2003, they had reduced all the following master crews on two people, to save resources, and was forced to perform all shuttle flights by Soyuz rocket. Malenchenko commander and flight engineer Lu remained six months aboard the space station and returned in October 2003 with the Soyuz spacecraft back to Earth.
Lu made recently when scientists in November 2005 talked about, as he presented an idea in an issue of the prestigious journal Nature, asteroids that might collide with the Earth to steer off course. Detected early, you could control an unmanned spacecraft that would be provided (due to the low weight ) with an ion drive to a planetoid. Near the body, it would be stopped and will keep its relative position in. Due to the mutual gravitational forces the spacecraft to the asteroid could be " pulling " distract slightly from its orbit then. Specifically, Lu talked about the asteroid Apophis. This was discovered in the summer of 2004. First train calculations had shown that it were possible that he could collide with Earth in April 2029. Meanwhile, it is assumed that he 'll pass a very short distance. Edward Tsang Lu is co-founder of the B612 Foundation.
In August 2007, Lu left NASA.
Ed Lu and his wife have one child.