After NASA
On August 10, 2007, Lu announced he was retiring from NASA to work at Google.
In June 2010, Lu left Google and worked out of the Sunfire Offices.
Starting in September 2011, Lu joined Liquid Robotics as Chief of Innovative Applications, where his work includes outreach to promote new applications for ocean science.
As of February 2012, Lu joined Hover Inc. as the Chief Technology Officer.
On June 28, 2012, Lu, with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Dr. G. Scott Hubbard, Astrophysicist and Author from Stanford University launched the B612 Foundation to build and operate the first privately funded deep space mission called SENTINEL. The non-profit foundation will launch a space telescope in orbit around the Sun, about 170 million miles from Earth, where it will detect and track all moving objects, including asteroids posing threats to life on Earth.
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