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Shannon Lucid

Lucid circa 2004

Born

Shannon Matilda Wells

January 14, 1943 (age 79)

Shanghai, China

StatusRetiredNationalityAmericanOccupationBiochemistAwards

• Congressional Space Medal of Honor

• NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2)

• NASA Exceptional Service Medal (5)

• NASA Space Flight Medal (6)

Space careerNASA Astronaut

Time in space

223d 02h 50mSelectionNASA Astronaut Group 8MissionsSTS-51-G, STS-34, STS-43, STS-58, STS-76/STS-79, (Mir EO-21/22)

Mission insignia

Scientific careerThesisEffect of cholera toxin on phosphorylation and kinase activity of intestinal epithelial cells and their brush borders (1973)Doctoral advisorA. Chadwick Cox

Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. 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 space station in 1996, and is the only American woman to have served aboard Mir. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996, making her the tenth person and first woman to be accorded that honor.

A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where she earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1963, master's degree in biochemistry in 1970 and PhD in biochemistry in 1973, Lucid was a laboratory technician at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from 1964 to 1966, a research chemist at Kerr-McGee, an oil company in Oklahoma City from 1966 to 1968, and a research associate at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1973 to 1978.

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