FACTOID # 140: In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef - one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator for it.
 
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Encyclopedia > Edward Lu

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Ed Lu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (185 words)
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.
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.
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.
Astronaut Bio: Edward Tsang Lu 6/04 (621 words)
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.
Lu flew as a mission specialist on STS-84 in 1997, was a mission specialist and payload commander on STS-106 in 2000, flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-2 and served as NASA ISS Science Officer and flight engineer on ISS Expedition-7 in 2003.
Lu was the first American to launch as the Flight Engineer of a Soyuz spacecraft, and the first American to launch and land on a Soyuz spacecraft (Soyuz TMA-2).
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