Word: rhea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to crack her now celebrated composure, Ride was one of 35 candidates picked, six of them women. The other female "Ascans" (NASA slang for astronaut candidates) were equally talented: Judith Resnik, a doctor of electrical engineering; Anna Fisher, an M.D.; Kathryn Sullivan, a Ph.D. in geology; Surgeon Rhea Seddon; and Biochemist Shannon Lucid...
...Rhea Beth Compton Phoenix...
...BORN. To Rhea Seddon, 34, one of eight women astronauts and an M.D. trained to conduct experiments in orbit, and Navy Lieut. Commander Robert L. Gibson, 35, also an astronaut and a jet pilot: a son, her first child, his second; in Houston. Within twelve hours of his birth, the first U.S. astrotot logged a helicopter flight after he developed breathing problems and had to be transferred to a second hospital. At week's end his pneumonia-like condition seemed to be under control...
...fiery imagination of the Greeks created more elaborate tales about the golden planet. The Greeks called it Cronus, after the evil-tempered son of Earth and Heaven, who married his sister Rhea and devoured five of his own children because he feared them as rivals. Finally, when Zeus, the sixth, was born, Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone instead. After he was dethroned by Zeus (who became the king of the gods), Cronus went off to rule another kingdom, where he reformed his ways and taught people the secrets of planting. The Romans knew Cronus as Saturn...
...other great pioneer among Saturn watchers was the 17th century Italian-French more Jean Dominique Cassini. He located and named four more satellites (Iapetus, Rhea, Dione and Tethys). But Cassini's place in the heavens, and in was history of astronomy, rests on the discovery of a gap in what was then presumed to be a solid, opaque ring around Saturn. Other moons, as well as rings, were up in the intervening centuries, bringing the number up to a dozen. It took Voyager 1 to reveal that the "Cassini division" was not a gap, but many more rings...