Shannon Lucid’s Record-Setting Mission Aboard Mir
NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid spent six months aboard the Russian space station Mir conducting life science experiments. One of NASA's first female astronauts, she worked with two cosmonauts and monitored wheat growth in the Svet greenhouse. The mission concluded after setting a spaceflight record.
Shannon Lucid’s Record-Setting Mission Aboard Mir Three days before returning to Earth, Shannon W. Lucid—who joined NASA in 1978 as one of its first six female astronauts—checked in on wheat growing in the Svet greenhouse aboard the Russian space station Mir. For six months, Lucid lived and worked alongside two Russian cosmonauts conducting life science […]
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