ASTRONAUT

Shannon Lucid

1943 - Today

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Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (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 space by an American and by a woman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shannon Lucid has received more than 391,945 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Shannon Lucid is the 123rd most popular astronaut (down from 75th in 2019), the 803rd most popular biography from China (down from 640th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Astronaut.

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  • 51.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Shannon Lucid ranks 123 out of 556Before her are Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Anatoly Levchenko, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, and Muhammed Faris. After her are Boris Yegorov, Toyohiro Akiyama, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Solovyev, and Georgy Shonin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Shannon Lucid ranks 340Before her are Reinhard Libuda, Johnny Hansen, Juhani Suutarinen, Giuseppe Versaldi, Hans Heyer, and Yukio Kasaya. After her are Patrick D'Rozario, Gigi Meroni, Jeffrey Tate, David Geffen, Éva Marton, and Joe Haldeman.

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In China

Among people born in China, Shannon Lucid ranks 803 out of 1,610Before her are Ma Jun (200), Li Li-hua (1924), Leon Lai (1966), Chen Hongshou (1598), Fang Lizhi (1936), and Fou Ts'ong (1934). After her are Qian Qichen (1928), Lou Tseng-Tsiang (1871), Wang Changling (698), Jing Fang (-78), Chen Qimei (1878), and Wu Jingzi (1701).

Among ASTRONAUTS In China

Among astronauts born in China, Shannon Lucid ranks 2Before her are Yang Liwei (1965). After her are Liu Yang (1978), Taylor Wang (1940), Fei Junlong (1965), Nie Haisheng (1964), Jing Haipeng (1966), Liu Boming (1966), Liu Wang (1969), Wang Yaping (1980), Chen Dong (1978), and Zhai Zhigang (1966).