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Margaret Seddon (November 18, 1872 – April 17, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. Biography [ edit ] She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1951.
Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as a mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40 , and as a payload commander for STS-58 , accumulating over 722 hours in space.
Frederick Seddon was born in Liverpool to William Seddon and Mary Ann ( née Kennen) on 21 January 1872. He married Margaret Ann ( née Jones) (1878–1946) on 31 December 1893, and had five children with her: William James Seddon (b. 1894); Margaret Seddon (b. 1896); Frederick Henry Seddon Jr (b. 1897); Ada Seddon (b. 1905), and Lilian Louisa ...
Sep 13, 2019 · Margaret Rhea Seddon logged 722 in space over the course of three flights. Image credit: NASA. On her very first day away from Earth on 12 April 1985, astronaut Margaret Rhea Seddon said she felt like Superwoman. This, she explained, was because she was able to float around the Space Shuttle Discovery rather than walk everywhere.
Mar 3, 2017 · Margaret Rhea Seddon was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on November 8, 1947. The daughter of an attorney who was on the board of the local hospital, from a young age, she enjoyed piano and classical ballet and developed an early love for the sciences but, in her small town, there weren’t many possibilities at the time: “I can’t remember ever having any science before the seventh grade.”
- Umberto Cavallaro
- 2017
Margaret Rhea Seddon didn’t originally set out to be a pioneer. Yet, as a physician and one of the first six women accepted by NASA into the astronaut program, a pioneer she was. Seddon, a native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee and a graduate of the UT College of Medicine, spent 19 years at NASA beginning in 1978. She flew on three Space Shuttle ...
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1993, Margaret Rhea Seddon Awards File, Awards Office, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. Kay Grinter, Curator, “Space Shuttle Mission Chronology STS-40,” Kennedy Space Center
