Shannon Lucid

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Grade 3-5-Lucid has logged more time in space than any other American astronaut. Her story, from her childhood through her 188-day stay aboard the Russian Mir space station, is told here. Background information allows readers to trace the subject's career against the United States space program's highs and lows. Quotes from family members and friends add personal notes and insights. The book also offers information in the text and in sidebars about how astronauts live in space, thus answering those oft asked questions: How do they eat? How do they sleep? What is it like to be weightless? Full-color, mostly NASA photographs illustrate the text. A solid purchase.Jane Claes, T. J. Lee Elementary School, Irving, TXCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Gr. 4^-6. What American spent 188 days on a Russian space station 250 miles above Earth, flying at a speed of 17,300 miles per hour? Who conducted experiments studying plants and animals in space? Who stashed M&Ms and Twinkies aboard Mir and joked that she hadn't showered or washed her clothes for six months? Shannon Lucid, America's most experienced astronaut. When Atlantis returned from Mir to the Kennedy Space Center on September 26, 1996, Lucid walked out unaided, a feat in itself. According to her husband, gravity has never stopped her. In this informative biography, which is part of the Gateway Biography series, Bredeson depicts both Lucid's accomplishments and her delightful personality, demonstrating that the astronaut clearly knows no boundaries. Her early life in Oklahoma, her marriage, the birth of her children, her acceptance and training in the space program, and her five missions, which totaled 223 days in space, present an inspiring model for women and for humankind. Full-color photographs are a bonus, as are fun facts about life in space. A chronology and a bibliography are also included. Shelley Townsend-Hudson

Card catalog description
Chronicles the life of the astronaut from her childhood in Oklahoma through her various space shuttle missions to her six months aboard the Mir space station.


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Born to Baptist missionary workers in China in 1943, Shannon Wells always dreamed of going to space, and when NASA changed its policy about who could become an astronaut in 1978, she was among the first women to do so. After various space shuttle missions, Lucid was selected as a mission specialist to work on the Russian space station Mir, where she stayed for nearly six months. Describing the conditions and Lucid's duties aboard the ship, this book gives a vivid account of an astronaut's daily life in space.


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