UNITED STATES: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, ON A CAMPAIGN THROUGH TEXAS, HAILS ASTRONAUT SHANNON LUCID'S MARATHON STAY IN SPACE

Record ID: 337736

  • Title: UNITED STATES: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, ON A CAMPAIGN THROUGH TEXAS, HAILS ASTRONAUT SHANNON LUCID'S MARATHON STAY IN SPACE
  • Date: 27th September 1996
  • Summary: HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 27, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON GREETING ASTRONAUT SHANNON LUCID AS SHE GETS OFF A NASA PLANE 0.10 2. LV CLINTON AND LUCID ON STAGE 0.17 3. MV CROWD 0.20 4. MV CLINTON SAYING "LIKE ALL OF YOU, I AM HERE TO WELCOME HOME SHANNON LUCID. I WAS THINKING THAT THERE WERE SO MANY THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE STAMINA AND SKILL IT TAKES TO STAY IN SPACE FOR SIX MONTHS...IT'S A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT. A WITTY AIDE TOLD ME THAT IT'S A GOOD THING YOU HAVEN'T BEEN GIVING HER FREQUENT FLYER MILES OR WE'D BE IN DEBT AGAIN." (ENGLISH) 1.11 KEYWORDS: US PRESIDENTS ASTRONAUTS ELECTION CAMPAIGNS Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 12th October 1996 13:00
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  • Location: HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVADIT5VY1LJUO1INR4M4SL97F0V
  • Story Text: - INTRO: U.S. President Clinton, on a campaign swing through Texas, hails astronaut Shannon Lucid's marathon stay in space as an "amazing achievement".

    United States (U.S.) President Bill Clinton on Friday (September 27) met record-breaking astronaut Shannon Lucid and other astronauts from the shuttle Atlantis at Ellington Field, the NASA base near Houston.

    Several hundred well-wishers and supporters attended the ceremony to hear Clinton praise Lucid's 188 days in orbit on the Russian space station Mir as "a monument to the human spirit".

    Clinton, has been eager to identify his leadership with the NASA programme successes, and has tried to defend the agency during a period of cutbacks and reforms.

    NASA's budget has been reduced by 30 per cent during the past two years, but funding for a controversial 30 billion dollar space station has remained largely intact during the Clinton administration.


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