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Anna Lee Fisher
Anna Lee Fisher is an American chemist, emergency physician and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984 she became the first mother to fly in space. During her career at NASA, she was involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion spacecraft.
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science · American astronaut and physician (born 1949) · astronaut · chemist · physician · also Anna Lee Fisher, Anna Lee Tingle Fisher, Anna L. Fisher, Anna L. Tingle, Anna Fisher, Anna Tingle
Born 24 August 1949 · Q237470
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2025· 1 entry
“To be an astronaut, I was willing to pay them.”
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2018· 1 entry
Fisher christened the Viking Orion cruise ship, named after the Orion constellation and in recognition of NASA's Orion spacecraft, in which she was extensively involved
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2012· 1 entry
Briefly made news when, during the landing of Discovery at Washington's Dulles Airport, where it was being retired to the Smithsonian Institution, she advised an aspiring astronaut to study Russian
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 18,792 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Was assigned to the Operations Planning Branch to work on the procedures and training issues in support of the International Space Station (ISS)
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1988· 1 entry
Story by Bob Williams in the Los Angeles Times
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1987· 1 entry
And in the Space Station Support Office, where she worked part-time in the Space Station Operations Branch
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1984· 2 entries
After a flight lasting 7 days, 23 hours and 45 minutes, during which it had completed 127 orbits
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Became the first mother to fly in space
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1979· 1 entry
Fisher completed her training and evaluation period, making her eligible for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews, had there been any
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1977· 1 entry
And chose to specialize in emergency medicine
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1971· 1 entry
Fisher started graduate school in chemistry, conducting X-ray crystallographic studies of metallocarboranes
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1961· 1 entry
When Tingle was in the seventh grade at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, her teacher brought in a transistor radio so the class could listen to the radio broadcast of Alan Shepard becoming the first American in space
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-08-24.
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1918· 1 entry
But emigrated to the United States when she was sixteen years old
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