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...Shannon Lucid looked forward to a lot of things while preparing for her fifth mission in space, but she never expected tomatoes. So in the third month of her stay aboard the Russian space station Mir other provisions, Lucid was delighted to find a generous supply of the plump red fruit. "For the next week, we had tomatoes three times a day," she wrote in the weekly summary of events she beamed back to Earth. "It was a sad meal when we finished the last...
Tomatoes were a rare grace note in a grueling mission that was to end this week when the shuttle Atlantis returns Lucid to Earth after six long months in space. The 53-year-old shuttle veteran will have amassed 223 days in orbit since 1985, making her America's most experienced astronaut. Besting Russian cosmonaut Elena Kondakova, Lucid will also have set the women's record for consecutive days in orbit (188), after hurricanes and technical glitches delayed shuttle flights that should have picked her up almost seven weeks earlier...
...Lucid, who took the delays sportingly, realized she would be earning her pay in space this trip as soon as she crawled into Mir last March, joining the two men she came to know affectionately as her "two Yuris"--cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachev. The Russian station is a cluster of six cramped, camper-size pods, with most of the living space devoted to labs. Personnel sleep in curtained, closet-like enclosures at the end of one pod and exercise with their bodies bungeed into place on treadmills; when it comes time for a shower, they must...
Spartan as Mir is, its science facilities are first rate, and Lucid, a biochemist, spent much of her time aloft studying how the space environment affects living tissue and how protein crystals grow in zero gravity. Like others who have tried to live and work in space, however, she found that the living part doesn't always go as well as the working part...
...read to the role of Mary in a few scenes in which the mother is joins her husband and sons in the battle of recriminations, accusations, and criticism. The Tyrone family suffers not only because of their mother's inabilityto show love, but because of her all too lucid ability to target and wound them. She is hardly the harmless, mad Ophelia to which Jamie ironically compares her. Mary hands out venom, not posies...