Rhea Seddon

Margaret Rhea Seddon is an American astronaut and physician, born on 8 November 1947 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She earned a bachelor of arts in physiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 and a doctorate of medicine from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1973. NASA selected her on 16 January 1978 in its eighth astronaut group. She flew three Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist: STS-51D on Discovery in April 1985 (nearly 7 days), STS-40 on Columbia in June 1991 (over 9 days) and STS-58 on Columbia from 18 October to 1 November 1993 (14 days), totalling 30 days 2 hours 21 minutes in space. She retired from NASA on 23 February 1998 and afterwards worked as an assistant medical officer at the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville, Tennessee. Her listed hobbies are gardening, running, cooking, tennis, sailing and reading.