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Shannon Lucid
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Shannon Lucid
Lucid circa 2004
Born
Shannon Matilda Wells
January 14, 1943 (age 79)
Shanghai (Opens in a new window), China
StatusRetiredNationalityAmericanOccupationBiochemist (Opens in a new window)Awards
Space careerNASA (Opens in a new window) Astronaut
Time in space
223d 02h 50mSelectionNASA Astronaut Group 8 (Opens in a new window)MissionsSTS-51-G (Opens in a new window), STS-34 (Opens in a new window), STS-43 (Opens in a new window), STS-58 (Opens in a new window), STS-76 (Opens in a new window)/STS-79 (Opens in a new window), (Mir EO-21 (Opens in a new window)/22 (Opens in a new window))
Mission insignia
Scientific careerThesis (Opens in a new window)Effect of cholera toxin on phosphorylation and kinase activity of intestinal epithelial cells and their brush borders (Opens in a new window) (1973)Doctoral advisor (Opens in a new window)A. Chadwick Cox
Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist (Opens in a new window) and retired NASA (Opens in a new window) astronaut (Opens in a new window). At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American and by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian Mir (Opens in a new window) space station in 1996, and is the only American woman to have served aboard Mir. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor (Opens in a new window) in December 1996, making her the tenth person and first woman to be accorded that honor.
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma (Opens in a new window), where she earned her bachelor's degree (Opens in a new window) in chemistry in 1963, master's degree (Opens in a new window) in biochemistry (Opens in a new window) in 1970 and PhD (Opens in a new window) in biochemistry in 1973, Lucid was a laboratory technician at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Opens in a new window) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Opens in a new window), from 1964 to 1966, a research chemist at Kerr-McGee (Opens in a new window), an oil company in Oklahoma City from 1966 to 1968, and a research associate at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1973 to 1978.
