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Article: Frito-Lay Offers to Satisfy Returning Astronaut's Craving for Potato Chips
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- PR Newswire
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- September 26, 1996
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PLANO, Texas, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frito-Lay Company today announced that it will welcome Dr. Shannon Lucid home today by offering her a truckload of Lay's Potato Chips. Lucid, who has shown patience and a sense of humor while waiting for her delayed ride back to Earth, admitted during her record-breaking space flight that she is craving potato chips.
"I miss things like potato chips...I miss feeling the wind and the sun," she said.* The astronaut's 188-day stay on the Russian space station Mir has broken records for the length of space flights by women and Americans.
Texas-based Frito-Lay is offering to provide the Houston resident and astronaut ...