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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 space. On these flights, she built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and perfo…
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science · American astronaut and physician (born 1947) · astronaut · physician · also Margaret Rhea Seddon, Rhea Seddon, M. Rhea Seddon, Margaret Seddon, Margaret R. Seddon, M. R. Seddon
Born 8 November 1947 · Q254298
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“There is as much difference between poisoning and stifling as there is between throwing dust in a man’s eyes & putting his eyes out yet where only momentary blindness is wanted the first will do as well as the last.”
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“in view of the responsibility, in the presence of God and my country — and unawed by the wild spirit of revolution around me, I vote “no.”
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“when the rabble hiss, well may patriots tremble!”
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Was named as one of the University of Tennessee Centennial Top 100 Alumni and was a co-recipient of the Great American leadership award along with Gibson
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Awarded United States Astronaut Hall of Fame (2015).
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Awarded Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame (2015).
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And won the Independent Book Publishers Association Ben Franklin Gold Award for Best Autobiography/Memoir
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“The Terror of Being Black at Gettysburg”
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Enrolled in a creative writing program at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro
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“The Pathology of Privilege: Racism”
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And the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame and Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame in 2015
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“No Peace without Victory, 1861–1865”
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“Some Doubts About The Confederate Case”
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“The Hampton Roads Peace Conference: A Final Test of Lincoln's Presidential Leadership”
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Was detailed by NASA to Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee, where she assisted in the preparation of cardiovascular experiments that flew on the STS-90 Neurolab Spacelab flight in April 1998
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“The Racist Roots of Gun Control”
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Abbey offered her the chance of another flight in the meantime, but Seddon declined, as she was hoping to have another child, and felt that the SLS-1 mission needed someone to watch over it, even if its launch was years
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1991 and 1993; the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1988 and 1992, and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1994
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After selection as a candidate the year prior
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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
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) issued a call for applications for pilot and mission specialist candidates
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Studied at University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (1973).
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There were only six women in the class of more than one hundred medical students
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Studied at University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts (1970).
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Wrote a school report on what would happen to people who ventured into space
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Born 1947-11-08.
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“The Bonnie Flag With the Stripes and Stars”
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“The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
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“Provisional Constitution and Ordinances”
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