Departure: Astronaut Shannon Lucid
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 21:21
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Shannon Lucid, who more than three decades ago became one of the first women to join NASA’s astronaut corps, has retired from the space agency. A veteran of five spaceflights, Lucid spent more than 223 days in space, and from August 1991 to June 2007, held the record for the most days in orbit by any woman in the world. The the only American woman to serve aboard the Russian Mir space station, Lucid was later named NASA’s chief scientist and became a familiar voice as Capcom in Mission Control for numerous shuttle and station crews.
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