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