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October 23, 2005
Dr. Edward Lu, NASA Astronaut, 10/19/05
Dr. Edward Lu has flown as a mission specialist on STS-84 in 1997, mission specialist and payload commander on STS-106 in 2000, and flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-2, and served as NASA ISS Science Officer and flight engineer on ISS Expedition-7 in 2003. A veteran of three space missions, Dr. Lu has logged over 206 days in space, and an EVA (spacewalk) totaling 6 hours and 14 minutes.
Since obtaining his Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1989, Dr. Edward Tsang Lu has been a research physicist working in the fields of solar physics and astrophysics. He was a visiting scientist at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, CO, from 1989 until 1992, the final year holding a joint appointment with the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado. From 1992 until 1995, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, HI. Dr. Lu has developed a number of new theoretical advances, which have provided for the first time a basic understanding of the underlying physics of solar flares. He has published articles on a wide range of topics including solar flares, cosmology, solar oscillations, statistical mechanics, and plasma physics.
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