Shannon Lucid/Space Ambassador (Gateway Biography)

Grade 3-5-Lucid has logged more time in space than any other American astronaut. Her story, from her childhood through her 188-day stay aboard the Russian Mir space station, is told here. Background information allows readers to trace the subject's career against the United States space program's highs and lows. Quotes from family members and friends add personal notes and insights. The book also offers information in the text and in sidebars about how astronauts live in space, thus answering those oft asked questions: How do they eat? How do they sleep? What is it like to be weightless? Full-color, mostly NASA photographs illustrate the text. A solid purchase.Jane Claes, T. J. Lee Elementary School, Irving, TXCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.