Shannon Lucid
American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut · United States · On the map · Astronauts · Born 1943 · age 83
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid 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 Lucid is read about 56 times a day, in 43 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
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The first NASA women astronauts. Back row, left to right: Kathryn Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Anna Fisher, Judith Resnik. Front row, left to right: Sally Ride and Rhea Seddon.
On the STS-51-G mission
The five STS-34 astronauts pose for an in-space crew portrait.
Lucid conducts Development Test Objective (DTO) 1208, Space Station Cursor Control Device Evaluation II and Advanced Applications, at the payload station on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis
Lucid, in the middeck waste collection system facility, peeking out from behind the privacy curtain
Communicating with the ground support team inside the Core Module of Mir
Exercising on a treadmill during her stay aboard MirAwards
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From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in space by an American and by a woman. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996, making her the tenth person and the first woman to be accorded the honor.
