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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.
Apr 26, 2024 · 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.
Shannon Lucid is working with the International Space Station Program while she prepares to be assigned to another flight. Among her preparations are completing winter survival training at Cold Lake, Canada. Read more about Shannon Lucid and NASA-2. Read Shannon Lucid's Oral History (PDF)
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Shannon Lucid first worked as a teaching assistant in the University of Oklahoma's department of chemistry and later became a senior laboratory technician at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF).
Learn about the life and achievements of Shannon Lucid, the first woman to log the most flight hours in space and the most by a non-Russian. She was also a mission specialist on four space shuttle missions and a researcher on the Russian space station Mir.
On March 22, 1996, 53-year-old Shannon Lucid, a member of NASA's original class of women astronauts and a veteran of four previous space missions, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, which transported her to the ten-year-old Russian space station Mir.
Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid set an American record for the longest stay in space with her 188 days on the Russian space station Mir in 1996. In this Scientific American article, she reflects on her experiences and on the future of the international space program.
