Embassy Events 2007

U.S. Astronaut Shannon Lucid in Poland to Celebrate Fifty Years of Space Exploration

1 October 2007 

Astronaut Dr. Shannon W. Lucid (see more photos)

American Astronaut Dr. Shannon W. Lucid and Mr. John Hall, Director of Export Control and Interagency Liaison of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are visiting Poland from October 1-5, 2007 to participate in conferences and speaking events in commemoration of fifty years of space exploration.  Lucid and Hall will participate in the international conference commemorating fifty years of space exploration organized by the Polish Academy of Science and Warsaw University of Technology on October 2-3, 2007. 

Lucid, America's most experienced and record-setting astronaut, will speak about her space flight experience during 223 days on five missions between 1985 and 1996.  Lucid currently holds the United States single mission space flight endurance record on the Russian Space Station Mir.  In completing this mission, Lucid traveled 75.2 million miles in 188 days.  Hall will speak on the past achievements and future plans of the U.S. government’s space exploration program and the President Bush’s vision for future space exploration.  Hall will also discuss the completion and management of the International Space Station, retirement of the Space Shuttle, and development of future manned missions to the Moon and to Mars.

On October 4 Dr. Lucid will give the inaugural lecture for students at the Wroclaw University’s Institute of Physics and will appear at the American Corner at the Dolnoslaska Public Library to speak with high school students and answer questions about space exploration.  On October 5 Dr. Lucid will meet with students interested in astronomy and space exploration at the Chorzow Planetarium.  In the afternoon she will deliver a lecture for the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Physics in Krakow.  She is then meeting with high school students (girls) interested in science at the residence of Consul General Anne Hall.

Click here to see Shannon Lucid in "Kawa czy Herbata" TV program.