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These days the astronaut worries about how best to prepare his young children for a changing world.

Leroy Chiao had to overcome being picked on for his small stature and being one of the few minorities in his mostly white Midwest town.

Leroy Chiao would break bread with Sergei Korolyov, the father of the Soviet Space program and the first man to build a rocket that could make it into space.

Before becoming an astronaut, Leroy Chiao made some classic mistakes working as a young engineer, but he’s glad he learned his lesson early.

Telling people to pursue there interests without an eye to the future is a big mistake.

Leroy Chiao looks up to Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong but he also admires his parents who immigrated from China and finally settled in the Midwest.

Leroy Chiao says the most important quality for an astronaut is the ability to get along with others.

Propulsion is still the key to improving transportation in space and on earth

Leroy Chiao was the commander “when all of the alarms started going off” and “we actually started rotating away from the space station.”

Before humans can spend long periods of time in space, scientists need to find a way to solve the many health problems that astronauts face, including bone and muscle loss.

Chiao is now director at Excalibur Almaz, a firm that plans to shoot paying customers into outer space within the next few years.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian space program has been working closely with NASA. But current Sino-American relations in space are basically non-existent.