Margaret Rhea Seddon
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Margaret Rhea Seddon 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...
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Portrait from 1978
Practicing CPR during a zero‑G training flight
Seddon and Gibson with newborn baby Paul
Seddon builds a homemade repair tool during the STS-51-D mission in 1985.
Seddon on the STS-40 mission
Seddon spins the Spacelab Life Sciences rotating chair as Martin Fettman serves as a test subject on the STS-58 mission.
Delivering a lecture in 2015Awards 2
In their orbit 1
Connected to Margaret 6
Pat SummittAlso won Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame
Joe EngleAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Jack R. LousmaAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Elizabeth RonaAlso won Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame
Rusty SchweickartAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Steven HawleyAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of FameAbout this person
Margaret Rhea Seddon 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. On these flights, she built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and performed medical experiments.
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