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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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), China
StatusRetiredNationalityAmericanOccupationBiochemist (Si apre in una nuova finestra)Awards
Congressional Space Medal of Honor (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
NASA Distinguished Service Medal (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (2)
NASA Exceptional Service Medal (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (5)
Space careerNASA (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Astronaut
Time in space
223d 02h 50mSelectionNASA Astronaut Group 8 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)MissionsSTS-51-G (Si apre in una nuova finestra), STS-34 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), STS-43 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), STS-58 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), STS-76 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)/STS-79 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), (Mir EO-21 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)/22 (Si apre in una nuova finestra))
Mission insignia
Scientific careerThesis (Si apre in una nuova finestra)Effect of cholera toxin on phosphorylation and kinase activity of intestinal epithelial cells and their brush borders (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (1973)Doctoral advisor (Si apre in una nuova finestra)A. Chadwick Cox
Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and retired NASA (Si apre in una nuova finestra) astronaut (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) space station in 1996, and is the only American woman to have served aboard Mir. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in December 1996, making her the tenth person and first woman to be accorded that honor.
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma (Si apre in una nuova finestra), where she earned her bachelor's degree (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in chemistry in 1963, master's degree (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in biochemistry (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in 1970 and PhD (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in biochemistry in 1973, Lucid was a laboratory technician at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Si apre in una nuova finestra), from 1964 to 1966, a research chemist at Kerr-McGee (Si apre in una nuova finestra), an oil company in Oklahoma City from 1966 to 1968, and a research associate at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1973 to 1978.
