Quotes by Shannon Lucid - Page 1

You're in charge but don't touch the controls.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Space
Star Gazing
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The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Space
Nice
Would Be
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If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Kids
Doubt
Thinking
Gratifying
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You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Art
Attitude
Thinking
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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 / Biochemist
Space
Time
Two
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It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Eyebrows
Hair
Liquid
Shampoo
Use
Wet
Wipe
Russians
Shuttle
Similar
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I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Men
Thinking
Years
Men Women People
Admit
Astronauts
Women Men People
Performed
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When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Jobs
Lowest
Lucky
Paid
Phds
Period
Phd
Technician
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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.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
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Female
Pay
Ready
Stars
Ahead
Aligned
Basically
Guess
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I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Desperate
Graduate School
School
Degree
Females
Graduate
Mince
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It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Advantage
Female
People
Tough
Basically
Flat Out
Hire
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Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Flight
Focused
Okay
Becomes
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I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.
Shannon Lucid / Biochemist
Crew
Flight
Satisfying
Your Remember People
Remember People New
Interactions
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