FLORIDA : Astronaut Lucid Breaks Space Record

American astronaut Shannon Lucid broke the U.S. spaceflight endurance record of 115 days, 9 hours, 43 minutes while aboard the Russian space station Mir, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Cape Canaveral, Fla., reported. The record was held by Norman Thagard, who last year became the first American to live and work aboard Mir. The world record for spaceflight, 439 days, is held by a Russian cosmonaut. Lucid, 53, will have spent about six months aboard Mir by the time the shuttle Atlantis arrives in September to retrieve her.