Editing Ed Lu (section)

==Early life and education==
Lu was born in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite |title=Biographical Data: Edward Tsang Lu (Ph.D.) |date=July 2023 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/lu-edward-0.pdf |publisher=[[NASA]] |via=[[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]]}}</ref> to a [[Taiwanese American]] family.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Taiwanese Americans - Document - Gale Power Search |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CCX3273300175&v=2.1&it=r&sid=GPS&asid=5fc6f8d6 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=go.gale.com}}</ref> His parents were immigrants from [[Taiwan]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-03-16 |title=Lu gets red-carpet welcome in El Salvador |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/03/16/2003246452 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=[[Taipei Times]]}}</ref> He was raised in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], and [[Webster, New York]].<ref name=":0" />

Lu attended R. L. Thomas High School, where he was a member of the wrestling team and graduated in 1980. After high school, Lu graduated from [[Cornell University]], where he earned his [[Bachelor of Science]] (B.S.) in [[electrical engineering]] and was a member of [[Pi Kappa Phi]]. He then earned a [[Master of Science]] (M.S.) and a [[Ph.D.]] in [[applied physics]] from [[Stanford University]] in 1989 as a fellow of the [[National Science Foundation]].<ref name="NASA-bio Ed Lu" /> 

Lu became a specialist in [[solar physics]] and did postdoctoral work at the [[Institute for Astronomy (Hawaii)|Institute for Astronomy]] in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] before being selected for the [[NASA Astronaut Corps]] in 1994.<ref name="NASA-bio Ed Lu" />