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Margaret Rhea Seddon

1947 - Today

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Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Rhea Seddon has received more than 172,129 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Margaret Rhea Seddon is the 278th most popular astronaut (down from 250th in 2019), the 10,444th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,511th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 32

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  • 2.53

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  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Margaret Rhea Seddon ranks 278 out of 556Before her are Franz Viehböck, John Casper, Scott Kelly, Janet L. Kavandi, Kevin R. Kregel, and Bryan D. O'Connor. After her are William B. Lenoir, Vasily Tsibliyev, Brewster H. Shaw, Tamara E. Jernigan, Richard O. Covey, and Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Margaret Rhea Seddon ranks 733Before her are Erika Lechner, Leonid Khabarov, Jan Henne, Clemente Mastella, Patrick Grainville, and Robert Gordon. After her are Flemming Jørgensen, Bryan Sykes, Amory Lovins, Christine Stückelberger, Oswaldo Ramírez, and Francisco Álvarez-Cascos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Rhea Seddon ranks 10,444 out of 20,380Before her are Warren Kealoha (1903), Iain Armitage (2008), Vickie Guerrero (1968), John Langdon (1741), John Edwards (1953), and Camilla Belle (1986). After her are Sam Bowie (1961), Edith M. Flanigen (1929), Erwin Hahn (1921), Ernestine Anderson (1928), Frank Greer (1879), and Avril Haines (1969).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Margaret Rhea Seddon ranks 115Before her are William C. McCool (1961), John Casper (1943), Scott Kelly (1964), Janet L. Kavandi (1959), Kevin R. Kregel (1956), and Bryan D. O'Connor (1946). After her are William B. Lenoir (1939), Brewster H. Shaw (1945), Tamara E. Jernigan (1959), Richard O. Covey (1946), Norman Thagard (1943), and William E. Thornton (1929).