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Anna Lee Fisher

1949 - Today

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Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle; born August 24, 1949) 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Lee Fisher is the 23rd most popular astronaut (up from 172nd in 2019), the 1,272nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,546th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Anna Lee Fisher ranks 23 out of 556. Before her are Richard F. Gordon Jr., Alan Shepard, Gherman Titov, Robert Crippen, Dennis Tito, and William R. Pogue. After her are Sigmund Jähn, Harrison Schmitt, Jack Lousma, David M. Brown, Svetlana Savitskaya, and Gerald Carr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Anna Lee Fisher ranks 70. Before her are Gene Simmons, Luis Sepúlveda, Lionel Richie, Tom Waits, Miuccia Prada, and Billy Joel. After her are Ruud Krol, John Belushi, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Jerry Lawler, Peter Agre, and Zoia Ceaușescu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anna Lee Fisher ranks 1,272 out of 20,380. Before her are Winona Ryder (1971), Robert Smith (1757), Philip Zimbardo (1933), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Rey Mysterio (1974), and Billy Joel (1949). After her are Ray Tomlinson (1941), Stan Getz (1927), John Belushi (1949), MacKenzie Scott (1970), Ida Tarbell (1857), and Frank Marshall (1946).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Anna Lee Fisher ranks 16. Before her are Michael J. Smith (1945), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Alan Shepard (1923), Robert Crippen (1937), Dennis Tito (1940), and William R. Pogue (1930). After her are Harrison Schmitt (1935), Jack Lousma (1936), David M. Brown (1956), Gerald Carr (1932), Owen Garriott (1930), and William C. McCool (1961).

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