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apply. She wrote to NASA and was sent an application form. She found that at 62 inches (157 cm) in height, she was just tall enough to meet the minimum height requirement of 60 inches (152 cm) for mission specialists. The application required three references, and she chose three people who had most strongly influenced her to that point: James Pate, the head of surgery at the hospital; Jose Guma, her flying instructor; and Jim
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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 astronaut, informed Seddon of the selection process that was underway, and she decided to
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salary of about US$ 22,000 (equivalent to $ 103,000 in 2023), which was more than she made as a surgical resident. Nonetheless, when she went to buy a townhouse she was told that her income was $ 3,000 short of what was required, even with her father putting up the deposit. United
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succeeded Abbey, he considered abolishing the position, but in May 1988 Seddon was unexpectedly given the job. Under Puddy, the job no longer entailed being a personal pilot and driver, but Seddon still worked on a variety of tasks. These included preparations for the
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prepared a report on how the research could be conducted without killing animals, which amounted to removing body parts without killing them. Seddon and
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helicopters supporting the flight. These would be required if the Space
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year, and he arranged for Seddon to spend her summer there as an aide. However, the new center's opening was delayed, and she spent the summer working in the surgical unit, where she decided to become a
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to participate in SLS-2, the follow-up mission to SLS-1. This was readily accommodated, as life sciences missions were not popular assignments among astronauts. In October 1991 she was designated the
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to her area. Huntoon agreed to take Seddon on as an assistant in the spring of 1988. However, while Abbey was Director of Flight Operations, he had an astronaut technical assistant, known in the
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1992:"Margaret Rhea Seddon (M.D.) NASA Astronaut"
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1994:. NASA. February 1992. Archived from
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1277:
363:University of California, Los Angeles
342:
3764:Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
3194:United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
2630:. Chicester, UK: Praxis Publishing.
2397:Willard, Michelle (April 22, 2016).
2354:Campbell, Doug (November 22, 1996).
2318:Souza, Etheridge & Callahan 2000
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643:and Seddon from the 1978 group, and
315:Vanderbilt University Medical School
4047:People from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
2489:
1778:"STS-51-D, 61-D crew announcements"
1776:Lawrence, John (February 2, 1984).
1718:Canetti, Barbara (August 5, 1982).
1278:Hinds, Andrea (September 5, 2018).
492:asked if he could interview her on
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2499:. Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
367:University of California, Berkeley
272:University of California, Berkeley
87:University of California, Berkeley
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2742:← NASA Astronaut Group 8 →
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1801:"Space Shuttle Mission Summaries"
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1186:Reim, Milton (January 16, 1978).
1054:NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
1030:Middle Tennessee State University
539:", used to denote newcomers to a
407:Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
337:Margaret Rhea Seddon was born in
126:NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
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2023:"Remembering Dr. Bob Phillips"
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2518:Grinter, Kay (June 1, 2015).
2497:"U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame"
2118:(Press release). NASA. 91-175
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567:to represent NASA along with
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988:Delivering a lecture in 2015
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2542:"100 Distinguished Alumni"
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1826:Shayler & Burgess 2020
1634:Shayler & Burgess 2020
1622:Shayler & Burgess 2020
1610:Shayler & Burgess 2020
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777:mission in August 1985.
333:Early life and education
3363:Frank L. Culbertson Jr.
2687:March 15, 2023, at the
2151:, pp. 57, 238–239.
1799:NASA (August 3, 2000).
1780:(Press release). 84-005
1757:(Press release). 83-046
1345:"Significant Sig Kap's"
1046:NASA Space Flight Medal
797:Denver General Hospital
665:Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson
561:Extravehicular Activity
369:, where she joined the
339:Murfreesboro, Tennessee
114:NASA Space Flight Medal
75:Murfreesboro, Tennessee
3830:Martha Craig Daughtrey
2744:NASA Astronaut Group 9
2740:NASA Astronaut Group 7
2725:NASA Astronaut Group 8
2405:. Nashville, Tennessee
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2981:NASA Astronaut Groups
2808:Francis "Dick" Scobee
2522:(Press release). NASA
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1150:. NASA. November 1998
1078:Seddon, Rhea (2015).
1003:Chief Medical Officer
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617:Space Shuttle program
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295:Space Shuttle Orbiter
288:emergency departments
4037:Physician astronauts
3928:Rosetta Miller-Perry
3769:NASA Astronaut Corps
3443:Frederick D. Gregory
3403:Christopher Ferguson
2986:NASA Astronaut Corps
2783:Frederick D. Gregory
2567:. Daily News Journal
1591:on November 11, 2022
1023:Nashville, Tennessee
999:Nashville, Tennessee
993:detailed by NASA to
873:Capsule Communicator
812:NASA Astronaut Corps
731:Kennedy Space Center
528:astronaut candidates
495:Good Morning America
462:Johnson Space Center
319:Nashville, Tennessee
307:capsule communicator
229:Margaret Rhea Seddon
58:Margaret Rhea Seddon
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4042:American physicians
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3608:Scott E. Parazynski
3568:Bruce McCandless II
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3318:Franklin Chang-Díaz
3273:Daniel Brandenstein
2837:Mission specialists
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2662:. NASA. SP–2000-534
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609:orbital spaceflight
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545:Northrop T-38 Talon
537:the fucking new guy
478:Millie Hughes-Wiley
382:. She received her
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163:NASA Group 8 (1978)
3698:Thomas P. Stafford
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2450:"Rhea's Biography"
2403:Daily News Journal
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1676:The New York Times
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1284:Rutherford Source
1265:, pp. 16–17.
1244:on March 15, 2023
1200:on March 14, 2023
1089:978-0-9962178-1-1
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