After her family spent the rest of the war years in Fort Worth, Texas, they returned to China, along with her newly-born brother Joe and sister Ann, and lived at times in Shanghai, Nanking and Anking. Wiki Bio of Shannon Lucid net worth is updated in 2020. One day, in her final year of study, she sat down with her professor to discuss her options for getting a job. When she was chosen as one of 35 candidates for the Shuttle program, more than three decades ago, the space agency operated in a very different world: a world dominated by the glory of the past and the triumphant Apollo lunar landings, but carrying much promise for the future. In her twenties, she tackled a prejudicial professor who wondered why she wanted a career in biochemistry…after all, he told her, she was a girl! Nor did I meet an Erin, my sister's name. Some observers have seen it as no accident that Shannon Lucid flew three missions with her good friend and colleague, John Blaha. “I immediately went to Shannon’s office and congratulated her on having achieved the highest honor a woman could ever hope to achieve: to be designated an honorary man,” the notoriously chauvinistic Mullane continued. She was born in 1940s, in Baby Boomers Generation.
World record holder Lucid watches the growth of plants in a Russian greenhouse aboard Mir. Soon after, Lucid received her pilot’s license. I ran into my first pair when I was teaching high school in the 70s.
Aged five, she took her first flight in an aircraft.
As an infant, in 1943, during the height of World War II, Shannon was held captive along with her parents, aunts and uncle, and grandparents, by the Japanese Army in Shanghai’s Chapei Civil Assembly Center prison camp. Technology to physics. The identity of the ‘one woman’ has never been divulged, but underlines the importance that NASA placed in its public image and its need to hire an astronaut class which truly represented the depth and breadth of America. Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid was the last of the six woman, picked in 1978, to fly into space, although this did little to dim her impact on the space program; many students know that Neil Armstrong was also the last of his class to fly. Education: Shannon Matilda Wells attended Bethany High School, Bethany, OK (1960) and BS Chemistry, University of Oklahoma (1963), MS Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma (1970), PhD Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma (1973). She vividly recalls seeing fires in neighboring Mongolia during her time on Mir that were only reported in the media weeks later because they were so isolated. Lucid picked up a paperweight and made as if to throw it. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
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But what made those overpasses even more special for Lucid is her heritage as being the only member of the astronaut corps to be born on mainland Chinese soil, in Shanghai. “Now at a certain level, a high level, there’s all this political stuff. It was a neat thing to be able to associate with the cosmonauts and find out about the history of all they had accomplished. The daughter of Baptist missionaries, J. Oscar and Myrtle Wells, Lucid will soon be returning to the land of her birth, as she accompanies NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin on a five-day trip in late September at the invitation of Laiyan Sun, administrator of the China National Space Administration.