Margaret Rhea Seddon
- STS -51 -D ( 1984)
- STS -40 ( 1991)
- STS -58 (1993)
Margaret Rhea Seddon ( born November 8, 1947 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States) is a former American astronaut.
Seddon received a bachelor's degree in physiology in 1970 from the University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate in medicine from the University of Tennessee.
Seddon practiced in general surgery in Memphis.
Astronauts activity
In January 1978, Seddon was selected by NASA as an astronaut contender. In September 1996, she prepared at Vanderbilt University Medical School before medical experiments that were put into space with the Columbia Neurolab mission in April 1998.
STS -41 -F
STS -41 -F was scheduled for August 1984 with the discovery. This would have been the first flight of Discovery, if it had not been canceled due to delays in payload. As the occupying Karol Bobko, Donald Williams, Rhea Seddon, David Griggs and Jeffrey Hoffman were provided. The flight was STS -51 -E.
STS -51- E
This flight of the Challenger was canceled due to problems of the IUS upper stage. It should have been exposed to a TDRS satellite. As the occupying Karol Bobko, Donald Williams, Rhea Seddon, David Griggs, Jeffrey Hoffman, the French payload specialist Patrick Baudry and politicians Jake Garn were provided.
STS -51- D
On April 12, 1985 Seddon started as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery for the first time into space. Payload were the two satellites TELESAT -9 and LEASAT - third In the latter, however, the automatic startup of the antenna and the engine did not work. Despite a space exit by the astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman and David Griggs, this defect could not be corrected.
STS -71 -E
The launch of the Atlantis mission would have been scheduled for April 1987, but was canceled due to the Challenger disaster. Except Seddon were planned as crew members of SLS - 1 mission Vance Brand, David Griggs, John Fabian, James Bagian, Francis Gaffney and Robert Phillips.
STS -40
On 5 June 1991 Seddon started as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS - 40th It was the fifth Spacelab mission, the first devoted entirely to life sciences. The main experiment was Spacelab Life Sciences -1. In this physiological studies in humans, performed 30 rodents and thousands of tiny jellyfish. Of the 18 studies were undertaken with ten people, seven rodents and one with the jellyfish.
STS -58
On 18 October 1993 Seddon started as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia into space. These were the Spacelab mission SLS -2 and served the research into the effects of weightlessness on the human body. The landing occurred at Edwards Air Force Base.
According to the NASA
In November 1997, Seddon retired from NASA and was Assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville, Tennessee.
Private
Rhea Seddon is married to astronaut Robert Gibson and has three children.