Like It Or Not, Lucid Sets Flight Record

American astronaut Shannon Lucid, stuck aboard the Russian space station Mir because of shuttle trouble, will set a record Saturday for the longest spaceflight by a woman - 169 days and counting.

She is already the U.S. space endurance champ, male or female.

Russian cosmonaut Yelena Kondakova set the record in 1994 and 1995.

Lucid, a 53-year-old biochemist and mother of three grown children was supposed to return to Earth in early August via space shuttle Atlantis. But shuttle booster rocket problems and the weather delayed the mission.