Matilda
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Matilda was born in Shanghai, China in 1943. Attending the University of Oklahoma, obtaining a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1973. The work experience includes a variety of academic assignments from teaching to research associate until 1978. From then until the retirement in 2012 this person worked for NASA, you probably know her as Shannon Lucid the first and right now the only woman to have the longest space travel on record. She stayed on the Mir for 179 days. She also holds the record for the most hours in orbit by a non-Russian.
Lucid was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. She was also inducted into the Oklahoma Women’s hall of Fame. However, one of greatest accomplishments was her induction in to the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2014. Now Barbara did I make you look a little closer this time…..
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