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Shannon Lucid: Career, NASA career & Early life

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (née Wells; born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. She has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed on Mir. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in…

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Shannon Lucid topic overview

The analysis highlights Career, NASA career and Early life as prominent areas in the source structure around Shannon Lucid. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
178
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
186
Extracted relationships
16
Related term clusters
50
Bridge connections
186

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

NASA career · 117 topics
Overview · 27 topics
Early life · 23 topics
Awards and honors · 11 topics
Later life · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Awards
Congressional Space Medal of Honor · NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2) · NASA Exceptional Service Medal (5) · NASA Space Flight Medal (6)
Education
Wheaton College · University of Oklahoma (BS, MS, PhD)
Born
Shannon Matilda Wells (1943-01-14) January 14, 1943 (age 83) Shanghai, Republic of China
Doctoral advisor
Chadwick Cox
Missions
STS-51-G · STS-34 · STS-43 · STS-58 · STS-76/STS-79 (Mir EO‑21/22)
Selection
NASA Group 8 (1978)

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Overview

Early life

NASA career

Later life

Awards and honors

Bibliography

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Shannon Lucid connects Entity context

The extracted context around Shannon Lucid shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Shannon Lucid → STS-34, STS-43, STS-51-G, STS-58, STS-76/STS-79 (Mir EO‑21/22) Another extracted example is Shannon Lucid → Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2), NASA Exceptional Service Medal (5), NASA Space Flight Medal (6). Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Shannon Lucid

Top relations

Missions · 5
Shannon Lucid → STS-34, STS-43, STS-51-G, STS-58, STS-76/STS-79 (Mir EO‑21/22)
Awards · 4
Shannon Lucid → Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2), NASA Exceptional Service Medal (5), NASA Space Flight Medal (6)
Education · 2
Shannon Lucid → University of Oklahoma (BS, MS, PhD), Wheaton College
Born · 1
Shannon Lucid → Shannon Matilda Wells (1943-01-14) January 14, 1943 (age 83) Shanghai, Republic of China
Doctoral advisor · 1
Shannon Lucid → Chadwick Cox
Selection · 1
Shannon Lucid → NASA Group 8 (1978)
Thesis · 1
Shannon Lucid → Effect of Cholera Toxin on Phosphorylation and Kinase Activity of Intestinal Epithelial Cells and Their Brush Borders (1973)
Time in space · 1
Shannon Lucid → 223 days, 2 hours and 50 minutes

Important terminology

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Important terminology

mission lucid space mir nasa crew one training flight astronaut shuttle astronauts hours oklahoma women station american atlantis later experiments

Shannon Lucid relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 16 structured relationships around Shannon Lucid. Examples in this analysis include Shannon Lucid → Awards → Congressional Space Medal of Honor and Shannon Lucid → Awards → NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Shannon LucidAwardsCongressional Space Medal of Honor1.00infobox
Shannon LucidAwardsNASA Distinguished Service Medal (2)1.00infobox
Shannon LucidAwardsNASA Exceptional Service Medal (5)1.00infobox
Shannon LucidAwardsNASA Space Flight Medal (6)1.00infobox
Shannon LucidBornShannon Matilda Wells (1943-01-14) January 14, 1943 (age 83) Shanghai, Republic of China1.00infobox
Shannon LucidDoctoral advisorChadwick Cox1.00infobox
Shannon LucidEducationWheaton College1.00infobox
Shannon LucidEducationUniversity of Oklahoma (BS, MS, PhD)1.00infobox
Shannon LucidMissionsSTS-51-G1.00infobox
Shannon LucidMissionsSTS-341.00infobox
Shannon LucidMissionsSTS-431.00infobox
Shannon LucidMissionsSTS-581.00infobox
Shannon LucidMissionsSTS-76/STS-79 (Mir EO‑21/22)1.00infobox
Shannon LucidSelectionNASA Group 8 (1978)1.00infobox
Shannon LucidThesisEffect of Cholera Toxin on Phosphorylation and Kinase Activity of Intestinal Epithelial Cells and Their Brush Borders (1973)1.00infobox
Shannon LucidTime in space223 days, 2 hours and 50 minutes1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Shannon Lucid bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Mir, Nasa and Mission. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • space shuttle
    • Shuttle
    • Space
    • Station
    • Also
    • Nasa
    • Mir
    • Experiments
    • Training
    • Flight
    • Woman
    • Astronauts
    • Would
  • space shuttle missions
    • Shuttle
    • Space
    • Station
    • Also
    • Nasa
    • Mir
    • Experiments
    • Training
    • Flight
    • Woman
    • Astronauts
    • Would
  • space shuttle program
    • Shuttle
    • Space
    • Station
    • Also
    • Nasa
    • Mir
    • Experiments
    • Training
    • Flight
    • Woman
    • Astronauts
    • Would
  • 3613th combat crew training squadron
    • Flight
    • Experiments
    • Shuttle
    • Months
    • Would
    • Women
    • Air
    • Mission
    • Also
    • Crew
    • Training
    • Sts-43
  • space shuttle challenger disaster
    • Shuttle
    • Space
    • Station
    • Also
    • Nasa
    • Mir
    • Experiments
    • Training
    • Flight
    • Woman
    • Astronauts
    • Would
  • space shuttle main engine
    • Shuttle
    • Space
    • Station
    • Also
    • Nasa
    • Mir
    • Experiments
    • Training
    • Flight
    • Woman
    • Astronauts
    • Would
  • space station freedom
    • Woman
    • Shuttle
    • Station
    • Also
    • Experiments
    • Nasa
    • Mir
    • Flight
    • Six
    • Astronauts
    • Would
    • Later
  • space station
    • Woman
    • Shuttle
    • Station
    • Also
    • Experiments
    • Nasa
    • Mir
    • Flight
    • Six
    • Astronauts
    • Would
    • Later

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Shannon Lucid, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Shannon Lucid with NASA career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Shannon Lucid — NASA career · splits 69 ⟂ 118
Shannon Lucid — Overview · splits 159 ⟂ 28
Shannon Lucid — Early life · splits 163 ⟂ 24
Shannon Lucid — Awards and honors · splits 175 ⟂ 12

Map overview Semantic statistics

Shannon Lucid

Nodes187
Edges186
Triples16
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010695
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Shannon Lucid to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career, NASA career & Early life, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Shannon Lucid · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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