Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Anna Lee Fisher

Anna Lee Fisher

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/August 24, 2024  by Gog the Mild (talk) 18:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)



Anna Lee Fisher is an American chemist, emergency physician and former NASA astronaut who was the first mother to fly in space. Fisher became an astronaut candidate with NASA Astronaut Group 8 and joined the Astronaut Office for the development of the Canadarm and the testing of payload bay door contingency spacewalk procedures. She was assigned to the search and rescue helicopters for four Space Shuttle missions, then involved in the verification of flight software at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and supported vehicle integration and payload testing at Kennedy Space Center. She flew into space on the for the STS-51-A mission and used the Canadarm to retrieve two satellites in incorrect orbits. Fisher then worked on procedures and training issues for the International Space Station (ISS), was a capsule communicator (CAPCOM) and the lead CAPCOM for ISS Expedition 33, and was involved in developing the display for the Orion spacecraft.
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 * Main editors: and
 * Promoted: December 22, 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: 75th birthday
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 17:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Support Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:28, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support 750h+ 16:01, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support Aoba47 (talk) 22:21, 21 June 2024 (UTC)