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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.
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.
This week’s retirement of Shannon Lucid – one of the first six female astronauts selected by NASA, way back in January 1978 – truly marked the end of an era. When she was chosen as one of 35 candidates for the Shuttle program, more than three decades ago, the space agency operated in a very.
Shannon Lucid: A Pioneering Life in Spaceflight. To celebrate the 39th anniversary of Shannon Lucid’s first spaceflight on 17 June 1985, Assistant Curator Lucy Twisleton takes a closer look at the career and legacy of this pioneering astronaut and biochemist.
• Legendary astronaut Shannon Lucid continues to work on shuttle missions. • Member of the first group of female astronauts accepted by NASA. • Holds the record for the most flight hours in...
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)
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).
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.
Shannon Lucid. Born January 14, 1943 (Shanghai, China) American astronaut, biochemist, administrator. Women's contributions to space exploration began in 1963, when Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937–; see entry) became the first woman to fly in space.
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.