Astronaut Shannon Lucid (born 1943) set the U.S. record for spaceflight endurance by staying aboard the Mir station for 188 days in 1996. This also set the record for the longest time a woman remained in space. Lucid made aeronautic history after...

1943- American biochemist and astronaut who in 1996 spent 188 days in space on the U.S. shuttle and Russian Mir space station, for which she received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. In 1979, following a teaching and research career, Dr. Lucid...

"Living on Mir: An Interview with Dr. Shannon Lucid" Conducted in March 1998; available at Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA (Web site) By the turn of the twenty-first century, space exploration was being conducted aboard space stations....

Born January 14, 1943 (Shanghai, China) American astronaut, biochemist, administrator Women's contributions to space exploration began in 1963, when Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937–; see entry) became the first woman to fly...

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American astronaut who previously 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...

The orbiting Discovery crew started the meticulous inspection of the shuttle's heat shield on Sunday, looking for any possible damage from liftoff.Mission specialist Nicholas Patrick maneuvered the shuttle's 50-foot robotic arm and similarly long boom with cameras and sensors as the exam began on the...

The orbiting Discovery crew, en route Sunday to rewire the international space station, first had to make sure the shuttle's heat shield wasn't damaged during liftoff.The seven astronauts prepared to inspect the wings and nose cap Sunday afternoon for chips or other damage from foam,...

Two Discovery astronauts set out Monday on the shuttle mission's fourth spacewalk to unstick a jammed solar panel array on the International Space Station.U.S. astronaut Robert Curbeam has been on all four of the flight's spacewalks, a record for the most spacewalks conducted on a...

Fresh from the success of an impromptu spacewalk, shuttle Discovery's astronauts awoke Tuesday to the strains of "Zamboni" by the Gear Daddies and got ready to undock from the international space station."We can't offer you a Zamboni to drive today," said Mission Control astronaut Shannon...