Shannon Lucid Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• You're in charge but don't touch the controls.
• The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.
• It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just…
• 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…
• If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.
• 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…
• 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…

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