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Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. She has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed on Mir .
Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943, Shanghai, China) is an American astronaut who from 1996 to 2007 held the world record for most time in space by a woman and from 1996 to 2002 held the record for the longest-duration spaceflight by any U.S. astronaut.
She returned from space a hero and a teacher of patience, but Shannon Lucid went up to Mir more as a student. Her aims were not so much to endure space hardships as to do her science, to learn all she could, and to get along with her crewmates.
Lucid, Shannon Matilda Wells. Credit: www.spacefacts.de. American biochemist mission specialist astronaut 1978-2012. Biochemist, first American woman to make a long-duration space station mission. Status: Inactive; Active 1978-2012. Born: 1943-01-14. Spaceflights: 5 . Total time in space: 223.12 days. Birth Place: Shanghai.
Shannon Lucid is a commercial, instrument, and multi-engine rated pilot; she had dreamed of being a pilot since her first airplane ride, at the age of five. Dr. Lucid became an astronaut in August 1979 and has flown on five space flights.
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