Margaret Rhea Seddon
Margaret Rhea Seddon is an American surgeon, physician, and retired NASA astronaut selected in the first NASA astronaut class to include women.
- Born
- November 8, 1947
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Murfreesboro, Tennessee,United States
Flights
3
Spacewalks
0
EVA time
N/A
In space
30 days, 2 hours, 21 minutes
Bio
Seddon earned a medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and trained as a surgeon. Her medical background became central to NASA life-science and crew-health work.
She flew STS-51-D, STS-40, and STS-58. Her later two flights were major life-science Spacelab missions, and she served as payload on STS-58.
Margaret Rhea Seddon flew on STS-51-D; STS-40; STS-58. The birthplace listed as Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States gives the profile geographic context, but the career is best understood through the training, mission role, and program responsibilities described above.