My grandfather, Dr. Edward Ching-Te Chao, was a big personality in our family and a legend in his field. A brilliant geologist, he was recruited in the 1940s by the United States Army and then by the United States Geological Survey, at the height of the McCarthy era. There, he was appointed a principal investigator for NASA on the Apollo project, where he designed the United States’ first lunar sampling program and sent Neil Armstrong to the moon.
Over the course of his 45-year career serving as a scientist for the US government, his research shaped the fields of minerology […]
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