Rhea Seddon (born 1947) is an American surgeon and retired astronaut for NASA. After being selected as part of the first group of NASA astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights, as mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as payload commander for STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space. On these flights, she built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and performed medical experiments. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Seddon was awarded her doctor of medicine degree in 1973. During her residency with the University of Tennessee hospitals, she was the only woman in the General Surgery Residency Program. Before, during and after her career in the astronaut program, she worked in hospital emergency departments. She retired from NASA in November 1997 and became Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1840:
British representatives and Māori chiefs first signed the Treaty of Waitangi, widely regarded to be the founding document of New Zealand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi
1952:
Elizabeth II became the queen regnant of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon upon the death of her father, King George VI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI
1976:
Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
2018:
The SpaceX launch vehicle Falcon Heavy made its maiden flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy_test_flight
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
rickroll: 1. To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up". 2. (by extension) To surprise or trick (someone) into listening to this song in a live setting. 3. (Internet slang) An act of or attempt at rickrolling. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rickroll
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Americans don't go around carrying guns with the idea they're using them to influence other Americans. There's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons. --Ronald Reagan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
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