Astronaut details
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citydesk@starbulletin.comAstronaut Ed Lu, a research physicist and former University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy postdoctoral fellow, will describe "Life on the International Space Station" in a public lecture 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Gov. Linda Lingle will introduce him in the UH School of Architecture Auditorium.
A Web-cast link will be available at www.ifa.hawaii.edu.
Lu did postdoctoral work at UH from 1992 to 1995. He joined NASA's astronaut program in 1994 and flew on three space missions, logging more than 196 days in space.
On April 25, 2003, he was the first American to launch as the flight engineer of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and to launch and land on a Soyuz spacecraft.
Lu spent six months on the International Space Station as flight engineer and NASA international science officer.
He maintained space station systems and supervised science operations, returning to Earth Oct. 27.