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SHANNON W. LUCID (PH.D.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) PERSONAL DATA: Born January 14, 1943, in Shanghai, China, but considers Bethany, Oklahoma, to be her hometown. Married to Michael F. Lucid of Indianapolis, Indiana. They have two daughters and one son, ive granddaughtersf and one grandson. Dr. Lucid enjoys flying, camping, hiking and reading.
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America of the 1950s and '60s provided few opportunities for women in search of careers -- even fewer for women looking for jobs in science. In 1963, just weeks away from getting her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Oklahoma, Lucid recalled talking with her professor about how to get a job. He stared back her, stunned....
In 1996, NASA was in the early years of its partnership with the Russian space agency. As a way to build on their relationship and learn about living long-term in space, NASA sent astronauts to live and work for months on Russia's orbiting space lab Mir. The assignment wasn't appealing when compared to the shuttle flights of the day. Astronauts had...
Since the Mir mission, Lucid has served in an astronaut support role for shuttle flights. She worked Mission Control during NASA's last shuttle mission in December and recently traveled with NASA Administrator Michael Griffin to China where they toured facilities where the Chinese are building spacecraft. Both China and the U.S. have ambitious luna...
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid [1] (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. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent ...
Dr. Lucid holds an international record for the most flight hours in orbit by any non-Russian, and holds the record for the most flight hours in orbit by any woman in the world. STS-51G Discovery (June 17-24, 1985) was a 7-day mission during which crew deployed communications satellites for Mexico (Morelos), the Arab League (Arabsat), and the ...
Dr. Lucid currently holds the United States single-mission spaceflight endurance record on the Russian Space Station Mir. Following a year of training in Star City, Russia, her journey started with liftoff at KSC on March 22, 1996, aboard STS-76 Atlantis. Following docking, she transferred to the Mir Space Station.
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She attended Bethany High School, and following that she enrolled in the University of Oklahoma from where she earned her Ph. D. degree in biochemistry in 1973. Lucid married, either before or shortly after her graduation from the university, Michael F. Lucid, who was from the state of Indiana.
