If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

- Shannon Lucid

You're in charge but don't touch the controls.

- Shannon Lucid

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…

- Shannon Lucid

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 w…

- Shannon Lucid

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 the…

- Shannon Lucid

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…

- Shannon Lucid

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 …

- Shannon Lucid

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 s…

- Shannon Lucid

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

- Shannon Lucid