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Anna Lee Fisher is an American astronaut. She also became the first mother to fly in space on the STS-51-A space shuttle mission after being selected by NASA in January 1978. Apart from being a NASA astronaut she is also a chemist, a medical doctor. She is a specialist in emergency medicine.

She was born on August 24, 1949 in New York. Fisher graduated from San Pedro High School, San Pedro, California in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of California.

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Her daughter Kristin Anne was just 9 months old when Anna Lee Fisher flew into space aboard the Discovery.
She served as the mission specialist in the space shuttle which launched from Kennedy Space Center on November 8, 1984.
She was accompanied by 4 other astronauts and they deployed two satellites during the mission.
During STS-5, 6 and 7 she served as a physician in the recovery helicopter and also helped to create rescue procedures.
From 1996 to 2002, which is also the early phase of building the ISS, Fisher served as the chief of the Space
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Fisher, Anna Lee Tingle
American physician mission specialist astronaut 1980-2006. First mother in space. Was married to astronaut William Fisher. Took extended leave 1989 to 1996 to raise family.
Status: Inactive; Active 1980-2006.. Born: 1949-08-24. Spaceflights: 1 . Total time in space: 7.99 days. Birth Place: New York, New York.
Grew up in San Pedro, California. Educated UCLA.
Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Anna L. Fisher (M.D.)
NASA Astronaut
PERSONAL DATA: Born August 24, 1949, in New York City, New York, but considers San Pedro, California, to be her hometown. Fisher enjoys snow and water skiing, jogging, flying, scuba diving, reading, photography and spending time with her daughters. Her mother, Riley F. Tingle, formerly of San Pedro, now resides in Houston. Her father is deceased.
EDUCATION: Graduated from San Pedro High School, San Pedro, California, 1967; received a Bachelor of
Anna Lee Fisher
American astronaut and physician (born 1949)
Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle; born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician and a former NASAastronaut. 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.
A graduate of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1971, Fisher started graduate school in chemistry, conducting X-ray crystallographic studies of metallocarboranes. The following year she moved to the UCLA School of Medicine, where she received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1976. She completed her internship at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California, in 1977, and chose to specialize in emergency medicine.
Fisher was selected as an astronaut candidate with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group of NASA astronauts to includ