Anna Fisher
Anna Lee Fisher
Born August 24, 1949, is an American chemist, emergency physician, and a former NASA astronaut. During her career at NASA, she has been involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion project. Although Fisher was born in New York City, she grew up in San Pedro, California, and considers it her hometown. She is a 1967 graduate of San Pedro High School. She went on to receive a bachelor of science in Chemistry in 1971 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Fisher then stayed on at UCLA and started graduate school in chemistry in the field of x-ray crystallographic studies of metallocarbonanes. The following year she moved to the UCLA medical school and received her doctor of Medicine degree in 1976. She did an internship at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California, in 1977. She chose to specialize in emergency medicine and worked in several hospitals in the Los Angeles area. Fisher later went back to graduate school in chemistry and received a master of science in chemistry from UCLA in 1987. Fisher was selected as an astronaut candidate in January 1978. In August 1979, she completed her training and evaluation period, making her eligible for assignment as a mission specialist on space shuttle flight crews.[6][7][8]
Following the one-year basic training program, Fisher\'s early NASA assignments (pre-STS-1 through STS-4) included the following:
The development and testing of the Canadarm Remote Manipulator System (RMS) ? commonly called the shuttle\'s \"robotic arm\"
The development and testing of payload bay door contingency spacewalk procedures, the extra-small spacesuit, and contingency repair procedures;
Verification of flight software at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) ? in that capacity she reviewed test requirements and procedures for ascent, on-orbit, and RMS software verification ? and served as a crew evaluator for verification and development testing for STS-2, STS-3 and STS-4.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-51A MSP 08.11. - 16.11.1984 7d 23h 44m
Total 7d 23h 44m
