How Do I Become a Space Scientist?

Wu Xuechao, a Chinese American, now works for NASA. Born in Maozhai, Banxi Town, Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, born April 9, 1928. He studied at Sinan Middle School in 1941. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Department of Aeronautics and Surveying of Nanjing Surveying School in the fall of 1947 with excellent grades.

Wu Xuechao

(Space scientist)

Moved to Taipei with the school in 1949

After graduating in 1952, he was assigned to manage the Shimen Water Conservancy Project, and was awarded second-class credit for the completion of the project two and a half years in advance. Later, he went to the United States with a Taiwan delegation and continued his studies in the United States, specializing in remote control and telemetry.

Master's degree from Serres University, New York, 1965

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1975. Wu Xuechao is a space scientist and the leader of the Aerospace Survey Group of the Space Geological Research Center of the United States Geological Survey. He leads the General Administration of Space and has been engaged in surveying and mapping of planets and satellites in the solar system for nearly 30 years. .

A few planets that were discovered in the United States on October 9, 1980 are named after the Wu family in honor of their achievements in the global surveying and mapping of Mars. He also won the 1992 Fairwood Award from the American Institute of Aeronautical Surveying and Remote Sensing, and was included in the Science and Technology Celebrity List by the China Books and Marques. Dr. Wu Xuechao was elected Chairman of the Space Survey Working Group of the International Institute of Aeronautical Remote Sensing for 26 years. He has organized several scientific research conferences in the United States and internationally, and was invited to speak at the United Nations Conference on Peaceful Uses of Space. After graduating from Nanjing Surveying School, Dr. Wu Xuechao taught at the Tainan Institute of Technology and Success University. In 1959 he participated in the work of the US Army Taiwan Engineering Office and served as an engineer. During his teaching period, he wrote two volumes of a book on plane surveying.