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You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

Shannon Lucid

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Shannon Lucid
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 14
Astronaut
Biochemist
Chemist
Shanghai
China
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid
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Recounting
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