page_title: Anna Lee Fisher
section_title: NASA career
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Lee Fisher / NASA career
caption_attribution_description: English: Astronaut Anna Fisher suits up with Dr. Joe Kerwin for neutral buoyancy training on a mock-up of the Hubble Space Telescope to test switching out scientific equipment modules. Fisher is using Pete Conrad's training suit as it was the only space suit small enough to fit her. Español: La astronauta Anna Fisher es asistida para ponerse su traje espacial de práctica por por el Dr. Joe Kerwin. Fisher esta usando el traje de entrenamiento del astronauta Pete Conrad por que era el único traje lo suficientemente chico donde podía caber.
context_page_description: 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 in space. During her career at NASA, she has been involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion project.
context_section_description: 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.
  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";
  Contributing to the design of spacesuits tailored to fit women (called extra-small Extravehicular Mobility Units, or EMUs);
  The development and testing of payload bay door contingency spacewalk procedures, 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.
  For STS-5 through STS-7, Fisher supported vehicle integrated testing and payload testing at Kennedy Space Center. In addition, Fisher supported each Orbital Flight Test (STS 1-4) launch and landing (at either a prime or backup site) as a physician in the rescue helicopters, and provided both medical and operational inputs to the development of rescue procedures. Fisher was a CAPCOM for STS-9.
  She eventually flew in late 1984 on STS-51-A aboard Discovery. The mission deployed two satellites, and recovered two others that had been placed into improper orbits due to the malfunctioning of their kick motors (see mission STS-41-B).
caption: Fisher being suited up. As one of the first woman astronauts, she contributed to the design of a space suit tailored to the female anatomy.
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