Go for Orbit: One of America’s First Women Astronauts Finds Her Space
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
17-9-2019 10:00 AM
Description
Former astronaut and one of the first six women accepted by NASA, Rhea Seddon, M.D., is a veteran of three space shuttle flights, a national speaker, and an awardwinning author. She served as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle flights in 1985 and 1991 and as Payload Commander in charge of all science activities on her final flight in 1993. After leaving NASA in 1997, Dr. Seddon was the Assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville for 11 years. She then became a founding partner of LifeWings Partners LLC which teaches teamwork to healthcare. She has also served as the president of a large women’s charitable group in Murfreesboro. Her 2016 autobiography, Go for Orbit, was awarded the Independent Book Publishers Association Ben Franklin Gold Award for Best Autobiography/Memoir. She will talk about her experiences with the space shuttle program and the inspiration, aspiration, and imagination it takes to be an astronaut.
Recommended Citation
Seddon, Rhea, "Go for Orbit: One of America’s First Women Astronauts Finds Her Space" (2019). Humanities Symposium. 22.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2019/2019/22
Go for Orbit: One of America’s First Women Astronauts Finds Her Space
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Former astronaut and one of the first six women accepted by NASA, Rhea Seddon, M.D., is a veteran of three space shuttle flights, a national speaker, and an awardwinning author. She served as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle flights in 1985 and 1991 and as Payload Commander in charge of all science activities on her final flight in 1993. After leaving NASA in 1997, Dr. Seddon was the Assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville for 11 years. She then became a founding partner of LifeWings Partners LLC which teaches teamwork to healthcare. She has also served as the president of a large women’s charitable group in Murfreesboro. Her 2016 autobiography, Go for Orbit, was awarded the Independent Book Publishers Association Ben Franklin Gold Award for Best Autobiography/Memoir. She will talk about her experiences with the space shuttle program and the inspiration, aspiration, and imagination it takes to be an astronaut.
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Featured Speaker
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts & Sciences