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Leroy Chiao (焦立中, pinyin: Jiāo L?zhōng) ,born on August 28, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an United States|American astronaut stationed on board the International Space Station. Leroy Chiao is an astronaut with NASA. He was born in Milwaukee, but considers Danville, California, to be his hometown. In addition to English language|English, Dr. Chiao is fluent in Mandarin (linguistics)|Mandarin and Russian language|Russian. Leroy and Karen Chiao married in 2003. He enjoys flying his Grumman Tiger aircraft, as well as skiing. On November 2 2004, Dr. Chiao voted in the US presidential election, 2004|2004 United States presidential election from aboard the International Space Station. This made him the first American to vote in a presidential election while in space. Dr. Chiao graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville in 1978, and received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He earned a master of science degree and then a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Invited to give technical seminars on honeycomb material and bonded panels, as well as cure modeling of aerospace composite materials, at the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, and at the Changsha Institute of Technology, 5th Department, in the People's Republic of China. Invited contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Composite Materials. Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award from University of California, Santa Barbara. Keynote Commencement Speaker for the Departments of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Santa Barbara, in 1996. Recipient of three NASA Space Flight Medals, and numerous awards including two NASA Exceptional Service Awards. Dr. Chiao graduated in 1987 from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and joined the Hexcel Corporation in Dublin, California. He worked for Hexcel until 1989, during which time he was involved in process, manufacturing, and engineering research on advanced aerospace materials; worked on a joint NASA-JPL/Hexcel project to develop a practical, optically correct, precision segment reflector, made entirely of advanced polymer composite materials, for future space telescopes; as well as working on cure modeling and finite element analysis. In January of 1989 Dr. Chiao joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where he was involved in processing research for fabrication of filament-wound and thick-section aerospace composites. Dr. Chiao also developed and demonstrated a mechanistic cure model for graphite fiber/epoxy composite material. An instrument-rated pilot, Dr. Chiao has logged over 2500 flight hours in a variety of aircraft. Selected by NASA in January 1990, Dr. Chiao became an astronaut in July 1991. He is qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. His technical assignments to date include: Space Shuttle flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL); crew equipment, Spacelab, Spacehab and payloads issues for the Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch; Training and Flight Data File issues; EVA issues for the EVA Branch. Dr. Chiao also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office EVA Branch. A veteran of three space flights, he flew as a mission specialist on STS-65 in 1994, STS-72 in 1996 and STS-92 in 2000. Dr. Chiao had logged over 36 days, 12? hours in outer space|space, including over 26 EVA hours in four space walks, prior to his mission aboard the International Space Station. Dr. Chiao is currently assigned as Commander and NASA Science Officer of Expedition 10, which launched aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle|Soyuz on 14 October 2004. STS-65 |STS-65 Columbia (July 8-23, 1994) launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, setting a new flight duration record for the Space Shuttle program at that time. The STS-65 mission flew the second International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2). During the 15-day flight the seven-member crew conducted more than 80 experiments focusing on materials and life sciences research in microgravity. The STS-65 mission was accomplished in 236 orbits of the Earth, traveling 6.1 million miles in 353 hours and 55 minutes. STS-72 |STS-72 Endeavour (January 11-20, 1996) was a 9-day mission during which the crew retrieved the Space Flyer Unit (launched from Japan 10-months earlier), and deployed and retrieved the OAST-Flyer. Dr. Chiao performed two spacewalks designed to demonstrate tools and hardware, and evaluate techniques to be used in the assembly of the International Space Station. In completing this mission, Dr. Chiao logged a total of 214 hours and 41 seconds in space, including just over 13 EVA hours, and traveled 3.7 million miles in 142 orbits of the Earth. STS-92 |STS-92 Discovery (October 11-24, 2000) was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida and returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. During the 13-day flight, the seven member crew attached the Z1 Truss and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 to the International Space Station using Discovery?s robotic arm and performed four space walks to configure these elements. This expansion of the ISS opened the door for future assembly missions and prepared the station for its first resident crew. Dr. Chiao totaled 13 hours and 16 minutes of EVA time in two space walks. The STS-92 mission was accomplished in 202 orbits, traveling 5.3 million miles in 12 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes and 25 seconds. ISS Expedition 10 October 9, 2004 - April, 2005, Dr. Chiao is the Commander of Expedition 10 on the International Space Station. See also: Other Chinese American astronauts with NASA: Edward Tsang Lu, Taylor Wang|Taylor Gun-Jin Wang. NASA Source: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chiao.html http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chiao.html Category:1960 births|Chiao, Leroy Category:Chinese Americans|Chiao, Leroy Category:Crew members of ISS Expeditions|Chiao Category:United States astronauts|Chiao Category:Chinese American scientists|Chiao, Leroy Category:People from Wisconsin This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Leroy Chiao".
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