STS-34
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STS-34 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis. It was the 31st shuttle mission overall, and the fifth flight for Atlantis. STS-34 launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on October 18, 1
Galileo and its Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in the payload bay of Atlantis
Back row: Williams and McCulley Front row: Lucid, Chang-Díaz and BakerSpace Shuttle program← STS-28 (30)STS-33 (32) →
Liftoff of Atlantis
Galileo heads for Jupiter.
Shannon Lucid
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Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid 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
STS-34
…kg (257,568 lb) Landing mass 88,881 kg (195,949 lb) Payload mass 22,064 kg (48,643 lb) Crew Crew size 5 Members Donald E. Williams Michael J. McCulley Shannon Lucid Franklin Chang-Díaz Ellen S. Baker Start of mission Launch date October 18, 1989, 16:53:40 UTC (12:53:40 pm EDT) Launch site Kennedy, LC-39B Contractor…
Lucid c. 2004
The first NASA women astronauts. Back row, left to right: Kathryn Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Anna Fisher, Judith Resnik. Front row, left to right: Sally Ride and Rhea Seddon.
On the STS-51-G mission
The five STS-34 astronauts pose for an in-space crew portrait.