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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). His father also lived with him.
Margaret Seddon (November 18, 1872 – April 17, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. Biography. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1951. Her most memorable role was perhaps as one of The Pixilated Sisters, a comedic stage act with actress Margaret McWade.
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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.
Sep 13, 2019 · 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 already a qualified physician and surgeon when she learned that NASA, for the first time in a decade, was selecting new astronauts , opening its arms to women and promising “equal employment opportunities.”
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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.
