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	Leroy Chiao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chiao was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Danville, California.
		Leroy was born in 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
		Chiao will be the first visiting professor to fill the newly established chair, which is part of the College of Engineering’s effort to recognize Max Faget, 1943 LSU engineering alumnus who designed the Mercury space-craft and contributed to the designs of every U.S. human spacecraft from Mercury to the Space Shuttle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leroy_Chiao (2089 words)

	Astronaut Bio: Leroy Chiao (12/2005)
		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, where he developed and demonstrated a mechanistic cure model for graphite fiber/epoxy composite material.
		Chiao was the EVA/Construction Lead for this mission and totaled 13 hours and 16 minutes of EVA time in two space walks.
		Chiao was the Commander and NASA Science Officer of the 10th mission to the International Space Station.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios/htmlbios/chiao.html (1074 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Expedition 10
		Chiao and Sharipov docked at the Space Station on October 16, 2004 aboard Soyuz TMA-5, to relieve Expedition 9 crewmates Mike Fincke and Gennady Padalka.
		Chiao is a veteran of three Space Shuttle flights, and spent 13 hours on two spacewalks in 2000 as part of a construction mission at the Station.
		Chiao was also the first astronaut to vote in a U.S. Presidential election from space.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Expedition-10 (2164 words)

	ISS Spacewalk Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov are headed back to the Pirs airlock to retrieve a Russian science experiment that they plan to install outside the International Space Station.
		Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov are moving back toward the Pirs airlock, heading toward a trio of vents on the hull of the Zvezda service module.
		Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov now have completed breathing in a supply of pure oxygen, a procedure carried out to rid their bodies of nitrogen that could bubble up in their bloodstream and cause a painful or even deadly case of decompression sickness, known to SCUBA divers as "the bends."
	www.floridatoday.com /blogs/spacewalk012605 (3166 words)

	2005 Press Releases, Speeches and Statements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chiao and Sharipov are scheduled to conduct a second spacewalk in late March to install additional equipment for the maiden arrival of the European Space Agency's "Jules Verne" Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship.
		Chiao and Sharipov moved a Japanese commercial experiment from one bracket on the outside of Zvezda to an adjacent bracket.
		Chiao and Sharipov are scheduled to conduct a second spacewalk in late March to install additional equipment for the maiden arrival of the European Space Agency's "Jules Verne" Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo ship.
	www.usembassy-china.org.cn /press/release/2005/012805int.html (915 words)

	California Alumni Association at UC Berkeley
		Chiao left Lawrence Livermore in 1990 after he was accepted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as an astronaut candidate.
		Chiao will be the first person associated with the lab to live on the station.
		Chiao was born in Milwaukee, but raised in Danville.
	www.alumni.berkeley.edu /CAA_News_and_Press_Releases/Alum_of_the_Week/Leroy_Chiao.asp (410 words)

	Rummet.dk - Stemmen fra rummet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Astronauten Leroy Chiao var i kredsløb om Jorden på den internationale rumstation under tirsdagens valg.
		Chiao fortalte dagen før valget, at NASA havde arbejdet hårdt for at få det juridiske på plads, så den 44-årige astronaut kunne bruge sin stemmeret om bord på den rumstationen, der er hans hjem indtil foråret.
		Leroy Chiao kort før afgangen til den internationale rumstation.
	www.rummet.dk /96f2774 (239 words)

	USATODAY.com - Next ISS astronauts hope for space shuttle visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Expedition 10 commander Leroy Chiao, a veteran shuttle astronaut, and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov are in their final 10 weeks of training before stepping inside a Soyuz spacecraft and kicking off a six-month ISS tour.
		Neither Chiao nor Sharipov know who will fill the third seat during their Soyuz flight to the space station, but they do know the seat won't be empty.
		Chiao has logged more than 36 days in space - 26 hours in spacewalks - and helped attach the station's Z1 Truss and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 to the station's superstructure during his last space flight, STS-92 in October of 2000.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-07-29-expedition-10_x.htm (817 words)

	Election 2004
		Chiao will cast his vote and use a secure e-mail to send his ballot back to the clerk's office.
		Chiao received his doctorate in chemical engineering from UCSB in 1987 and became an astronaut in 1991.
		Chiao has just begun a six-month mission as commander of the 10th crew of the space station.
	www.newspress.com /election2004/space102504.html (700 words)

	STS-92 Crew Members
		Leroy Chiao, 40, serves as Mission Specialist 1 (MS 1) on his third flight into space on STS-92.
		Chiao is primarily responsible for Z1 truss systems and will serve as Extravehicular crew member 1 (EV 1) during the first and third space walks of the flight.
		Chiao and Bill McArthur will hook up umbilicals between the newly installed Z1 truss and other International Space Station components and will help to hook up electrical connections between the third Pressurized Mating Adapter and the Unity connecting node.
	www.shuttlepresskit.com /STS-92/crew.htm (913 words)

	Spacemen shed pounds on sweet-tooth diet - Space News - MSNBC.com
		NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov cut back on meat, potatoes and vegetables by half and made up for the lost calories with sweets.
		Chiao also blamed the shortage on the previous crew members, who had permission to take some of the current crew's supply because they were lacking food variety.
		Chiao and Sharipov are two and a half months into a six-month stay in space.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6766441 (752 words)

	NASA - Democracy in Orbit: Chiao to Vote in Space
		Even though he'll be floating around the Earth 230 miles up on the International Space Station, Chiao is not too far from the polls to stand up and be counted, thanks to a bill passed in 1997 by Texas legislators.
		Then, Chiao will cast his vote and use a secure e-mail connection to send his ballot back to the clerk's office to be recorded.
		Chiao is only a few days into a six-month mission as commander of the tenth crew of the International Space Station.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/space/livinginspace/chiao_votes.html (479 words)

	STS-72
		Chiao and Barry tested out Space Station equipment including a portable work platform and a rigid umbilical truss for carrying electrical cables and fluid lines.
		Chiao and Barry evaluated a new EVA workstation, a movable stanchion that provides stability for astronauts and holders for tools, a flexible foot restraint, and a rigid umbilical that may be used on the International Space Station to hold fluid and electrical umbilicals in place.
		Chiao and Scott evaluated a utility box designed to hold avionics and fluid line connections on the space station, an on-orbit-installed slidewire to which tethers can be connected, thermal improvements of space suits, and a wrist-mounted computer called the electronic cuff checklist.
	www.astronautix.com /flights/sts72.htm (738 words)

	SPACE.com -- Expedition 10 Crew Successfully Launches Into Space
		Tucked inside their Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft, ISS Expedition 10 commander Leroy Chiao and flight engineer Salizhan Sharipov enjoyed clear skies as they left the bonds of Earth and began a two-day trip toward the space station.
		Chiao and Shargin are serving as flight engineers during the brief trip.
		Trained as spacewalk specialist, Chiao is a veteran of three NASA shuttle flights, including a station construction mission in 2000 where he helped add the Z1 truss to the space station.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/exp10_launch_041014.html (901 words)

	Universe Today - Expedition 10 Completes Spacewalk
		During their time in space, Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov installed a $10 million German prototype robot arm which will demonstrate the feasibility of keeping a repair robot outside the station.
		Chiao and Sharipov then moved to another section of Zvezda to inspect nearby environmental system vents that are used for the Elektron oxygen-generator, the Vozdukh carbon dioxide scrubber and a particle contaminant purification device.
		After repressurizing Pirs, Chiao and Sharipov were scheduled to return to the Station, remove their spacesuits, reactivate the ISS systems and open the hatches to the U.S. segment.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/expedition_10_spacewalk.html (853 words)

	Universe Today - NASA Switches Around Upcoming Station Crews
		Chiao will serve as the expedition commander and NASA science officer, and Sharipov will serve as Soyuz commander and flight engineer.
		In mid-January, astronaut Chiao was named as the Expedition 9 commander due to a temporary medical issue related to McArthur's qualification for that long-duration flight.
		Following Chiao's assignment to fly with Tokarev, NASA and its partners continued to evaluate available crew resources for upcoming flights and decided it was optimal to keep teams together.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/nasa_switches_upcoming_station_crews.html?622004 (617 words)

	ARRLWeb: Expedition 10 Commander Racks up School QSO Record
		Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao, KE5BRW, says his two space walks were among the most exciting moments of his life in space.
		Chiao told the youngsters that he had a nice view of the Swiss Alps and the Zurich region from his vantage point some 350 km above Earth.
		Chiao, who said he enjoyed getting to answer questions about life in space posed by students on Earth, shifted into an accelerated schedule of ARISS school contacts as his duty tour drew to a close.
	www.arrl.org /news/stories/2005/04/26/3 (826 words)

	CNN.com - Space station looks much different to return visitor - Oct 21, 2004
		ISS Expedition 10 commander Leroy Chiao, flight engineer Salizhan Sharipov and visiting cosmonaut Yuri Shargin are now more than halfway through their eight-day handover period and getting acquainted with their spacebound home.
		Chiao, Sharipov and Shargin arrived at the station early October 16, the first human visitors for Expedition 9 crew Gennady Padalka and Michael Fincke since they took over ISS operations in April.
		In November, Chiao and Sharipov will move their Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft from its current berth at the Pirs docking compartment to a docking port on the station's Zarya module.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/10/21/astronauts.crew.change/index.html (604 words)

	Soyuz TMA-5 mission to the ISS
		Chiao and Sharipov were officially announced as Expedition 10 crew on February 6, 2004.
		Onboard were Commander Leroy Chiao, a NASA astronaut, Russian Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov and Test Cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, representing Russian Space Forces.
		Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, the 10th crew of the International Space Station, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan along with European Space Agency Astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy, who launched to the station with the Expedition 11 crew and spent eight days doing experiments.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /iss_soyuztma5.html (1115 words)

	ARRLWeb: Students' Space Questions via Ham Radio Show Strong Science Slant
		Chiao noted that the crew has both active and passive devices available to determine their radiation exposure.
		Leroy Chiao, KE5BRW, on the air from the ARISS Phase 2 NA1SS ham station in the ISS crew quarters.
		In reply to another physics-related query, Chiao told one student that a Hot Wheels car could run indefinitely on a track aboard the space station were it not for friction, which eventually would slow it down and stop it.
	www2.arrl.org /news/stories/2005/03/15/3/?nc=1 (802 words)

	Track Astronaut Leroy Chiao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Astronaut Leroy Chiao, California-Berkely '79, launched into space Oct. 13 as commander of the Expedition 10, a NASA mission to the International Space Station.
		The Expedition 10 crewmembers, Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, have adequate food to last one or two weeks beyond the arrival of the Progress.
		Chiao and Sharipov participated in a Russian experiment to test the human cardiovascular system in space.
	www.phikappatau.org /news/2004/200411.chiao.asp (890 words)

	ipedia.com: Leroy Chiao Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born August 28, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but considers Danville, California, to be his hometown.
		Chiao has logged a total of 36 days, 12 hours, 36 minutes and 5 seconds in space, including over 26 EVA hours in four space walks.
		Chiao is assigned as Commander and NASA Science Officer of Expedition-10, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in October 2004.
	www.ipedia.com /leroy_chiao.html (810 words)

	Space Station Crew Relied on Sweets to Cope with Food Shortage
		U.S. space station astronaut Leroy Chiao says he and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov were happy to see the arrival of the Russian supply ship named Progress on Christmas Day carrying 69 crates of food.
		Even with the sweets, the two station crewmen reduced their normal daily calorie intake by 10 to 15 percent and were facing the possibility of abandoning the station on the attached Soyuz spacecraft if the Russian cargo vessel had not arrived in a reasonable amount of time.
		Chiao says he and his cosmonaut colleague lost a little weight.
	www.voanews.com /english/2004-12-29-voa54.cfm (574 words)

	STS-92 Day 5 Highlights
		Mission Specialists Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao will connect two sets of cables to provide power to heaters and conduits located on the Z1 truss, relocate two communication antenna assemblies and install a toolbox for use during future on-orbit construction.
		Chiao, designated EV1 and recognizable by the red bands on the legs of his space suit, and McArthur, designated EV2 in a solid white suit, will devote the first hour of their space walk to set-up activities in Discovery^Òs payload bay, deploying tools and EVA aids including foot restraints and tethers.
		Chiao worked from the end of the arm late in the space walk as he manually unfolded the large ISS Ku-band antenna to its deployed position.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/missions/sts-92/sts-92-day-05-highlights.html (1076 words)

	STS-92 Mission Specialist 1: Leroy Chiao
		An instrument-rated pilot, Dr. Chiao has logged over 1500 flight hours in a variety of aircraft.
		Chiao has logged 567 hours, 55 minutes, 41 seconds in space, including two space walks totaling just over 13 hours.
		Chiao is assigned as a mission specialist on STS-92, the second Space Shuttle mission to assemble the International Space Station.
	www.shuttlepresskit.com /sts-92/crew73.htm (534 words)

	Leroy Chiao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1994, Dr. Chiao became the 196th NASA Astronaut to fly in space and the 311th human in space.
		Astronaut Leroy Chiao shoots more than 24,000 images of the Earth from space.
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	www.logicjungle.com /find-Leroy+Chiao.html (287 words)

	INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A meeting of the State Board was held at which the Soyuz TMA-5 and ISS-10 prime and backup crews were approved, as well as a decision was made to continue the Soyuz-FG/Soyuz TMA-5 rocket and space complex processing for filling and launch within the scheduled time.
		The prime crew (Salizhan Sharipov (Russia), Leroy Chiao (USA), Yuri Shargin (Russia)) and backup crew (Valery Tokarev (Russia), William McArthur (USA)) of the Soyuz TMA-5 transport spacecraft arrived to the cosmodrome to accomplish training and accept the spacecraft.
		Practice training of Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and American astronaut Leroy Chiao under the program of expedition 10 of the International Space Station was performed at the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
	www.energia.ru /english/energia/iss/iss10/photo_archive-iss10.html (707 words)

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