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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.
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 Agnes Emma Seddon (b. 1911). [2]
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On July 8, 1976, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) issued a call for applications for pilot and mission specialist candidates. It was the first time that women were encouraged to apply.A colleague, Russ Greer, a neurosurgery resident who had worked at NASA and was aware that Seddon had expressed an interest in becoming an ast...
New selections were considered astronaut candidates rather than full-fledged astronauts until they finished their training and evaluation, which was expected to take two years. Group8's name for itself was "TFNG". The abbreviation was deliberately ambiguous; for public purposes, it stood for "Thirty-Five New Guys", but within the group itself, it w...
In August 1983 Abbey offered Seddon a flight assignment on STS-41-E, which she accepted. Had the mission been flown as planned in August 1984, she would have become the third American woman to fly in space, but the mission, which was renumbered STS-41-F, was delayed and then canceled. The crew was kept together and assigned to STS-51-E, but it too ...
A three-flight veteran with over 722 hours in space, Dr. Seddon was a mission specialist on STS-51D (1985) and STS-40 (1991), and was the payload commander on STS-58 (1993). In September 1996, she was detailed by NASA to Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee. She assisted in the preparation of cardiovascular experiments ...
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 ...
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.”
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Seddon, Margaret (1872–1968)American stage and screen actress. Name variations: Margaret Sedden; Marguerite Sidden. Born Marguerite H. W. Sloan, Nov 18, 1872, in Washington, DC; died April 17, 1968, in Philadelphia, PA.Had vaudeville act with Margaret McWade as the Pixilated Sisters; made film debut in The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915); continued in films for 60 years, including The Bank Dick and The Meanest Man in Town; best remembered for role in Mister Deeds Goes to Town (1939).
