Feature · Science / TechnologyShannon Lucid’s Record-Setting Mission Aboard MirShannon 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 […]Read the full story →Michele Ostovar · September 23, 2026 at 12:03 PM
