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Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.

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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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Guess
Life
Female
Pay
Told
Ready
Went
Aligned
Stars
Ahead
Attention
Basically

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