Shannon Lucid’s Record-Setting Mission Aboard Mir

What happened

She was the tenth person and the first woman to receive this award. 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.

Blaha, who was beginning a four-month stay aboard the station. She worked as a CAPCOM in Mission Control, where she was the primary voice communicating with astronauts in orbit.

Shannon Lucid’s Record-Setting Mission Aboard Mir Three days before returning to Earth, Shannon W. Lucid checked on wheat plants aboard Russia’s Mir Space Station on Sept.