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July 1, 2003 -- Astronaut Ed Lu, KC5WKJ, celebrates
his 40th birthday July 1 while orbiting 240 miles above Earth onboard the
International Space Station. Lu is NASA's ISS science officer and flight
engineer on the Expedition 7 crew that also includes Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUO.
In honor of Lu's birthday, Hawaii Gov Linda Lingle has proclaimed July 1
"Edward Tsang Lu Day" in Hawaii. Lu considers Honolulu his hometown and has a
great fondness for Hawaiian "aloha shirts." Both crewmembers have been
occasionally sporting the colorful new attire that arrived last month on a
Russian Progress rocket as a gift from their support team in Houston. Lu and
Malenchenko--the first two-person ISS crew increment--arrived at the space
outpost April 28 aboard a Soyuz
rocket to begin its six-month mission. In the photo, the aloha-shirted duo
speak with aquanauts during last months NASA Extreme Environment Mission
Operations (NEEMO) mission. Peggy
Whitson, KC5ZTD, an ISS veteran, headed up the NASA crew that spent two weeks
on the ocean's bottom. On July 1 Mission Control flight control team members
are wearing aloha shirts to honor Lu's birthday. For more information about
NASA, human space flight, astronauts, and the International Space Station on
the Internet, visit the NASA Human Space Flight
Web site or visit Lu's "Greetings, Earthlings--Ed's Musings
from Space" Web site
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