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'''Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid''' (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and a NASA astronaut. At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Mir space station.

==Early life and education==
Shannon was born in Shanghai, China. Her parents, Oscar and Myrtle Wells, were Baptist missionaries. She grew up in Bethany, Oklahoma, attended the University of Oklahoma and obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry there in 1973.

She is married to Michael F. Lucid . They have two daughters and a son, and five granddaughters.

==NASA career==
Shannon was selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1978.

Her first space flight was in June 1985 on Space Shuttle Discovery's mission STS-51-G. She also flew on shuttle missions STS-34 in 1989, STS-43 in 1991, and STS-58 in 1993.

Shannon is best known for her fifth spaceflight. She spent 188 days in space, from March 22 to September 26, 1996, including 179 days aboard ''Mir'', the Russian space station. 

She travelled both to and from Mir on Space Shuttle Atlantis -- launching on STS-76 and returning on STS-79. Her stay on Mir was not expected to last so long but her return was delayed twice, which extended her stay by almost six weeks. 

During the mission she performed numerous life science and physical science experiments. As a result of her time aboard Mir, she held the record for the most hours in orbit by a non-Russian and most hours in orbit by a woman. On June 16, 2007, her record for longest duration spaceflight by a woman was exceeded by [[Sunita Williams]] aboard the International Space Station.

From 2002 to 2003, Shannon served as the Chief Scientist of NASA. Later, she was a CAPCOM (capsule communicator) for STS-114 in 2005, STS-116 in 2006, STS-118 and STS-120 in 2007, STS-122, STS-124, and STS-126 in 2008.

==Awards and honors==
Shannon was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996, the tenth person and first woman to be given that honor.

==Bibliography==
* ''Wings and Rockets: The Story of Women in Air and Space'', Jeannine Atkins. Farrar, Straus  and Giroux. 2003. (A chapter dramatising a few events in the life of Shannon Lucid).

== External Links ==
*[http://womenfly.com Women Fly]
*[http://womenaviators.org Women Aviators]

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