|
Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
I remember sitting in one of my graduate classes when the smoke was so bad, and my friend was sitting there. She could hardly breathe, and she said, I'm going to fight smoking. And I thought, Jan, that's crazy. Why go do something that's so crazy? And lo and behold, it did change.
I think ... (more Shannon Lucid quotes)
Her first space mission was on board Discovery/STS-51G, June 17-24, 1985.
Her second space mission was on board Atlantis/STS-34, October 18-23, 1989.
Her third space mission was on board Atlantsi/STS-43 August 2-11, 1991
Her fourth space mission was on board Columbia/STS-58, October 18 to November 1, 1993
Currently holds the United States single mission space flight endurance record on the Russian Space Station Mir. Her journey started with liftoff at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, on ... (more Shannon Lucid trivia)