NAME:  Anna L. Fisher, (M.D.)
       NASA Astronaut
 
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE:  Born August 24, 1949, in St Albans, New York, but
considers San Pedro, California, to be her hometown.  Father deceased July 3,
1982.  Her mother, Mrs. Riley F. Tingle, resides in San Pedro, California.
 
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:  Brown hair; hazel eyes; height: 5 feet 4 inches; weight:
115 pounds.
 
EDUCATION:  Graduated from San Pedro High School, San Pedro, California, in
1967; received a bachelor of science in Chemistry and a doctor of Medicine from
the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1971 and 1976, respectively;
completed a 1-year internship at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance,
California, in 1977; received a master of science in Chemistry from the
University of California, Los Angeles, in 1987.
 
MARITAL STATUS:  Married to Dr. William F. Fisher of Dallas, Texas.  His
parents, retired Air Force Colonel and Mrs. Russel F. Fisher, reside in Winter
Park, Florida.
 
CHILDREN:  Kristin Anne, July 29, 1983; Kara Lynne, January 10, 1989.
 
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS:  She enjoys snow and water skiing, jogging, flying,
scuba diving, reading, and spending time with her two daughters.
 
ORGANIZATIONS:  Member of Sigma Xi.
 
SPECIAL HONORS:  Awarded a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research
Fellowship in 1970, 1971; and graduated from UCLA cum laude with honors in
chemistry.
 
EXPERIENCE:  After graduating from UCLA in 1971, Dr. Fisher spent a year in
graduate school in chemistry at UCLA working in the field of X-ray
crystallographic studies of metallocarbonanes.  She co-authored 3 publications
relating to these studies for the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. She began
medical school at UCLA in 1972 and, following graduation in 1976, commenced a
1-year internship at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California.  After
completing that internship, she specialized in emergency medicine and worked in
several hospitals in the Los Angeles area.
 
NASA EXPERIENCE:  Dr. Fisher was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in
January 1978.  In August 1979, she completed a one year training and evaluation
period, making her eligible for assignment as a mission specialist on future
Space Shuttle flight crews.  Dr. Fisher's NASA assignments have included the
following:
 
1)  Crew representative to support development and testing of the Remote
Manipulator System (RMS).
 
2)  Crew representative to support development and testing of payload bay door
contingency EVA procedures, the extra-small  Extravehicular Mobility Unit
(EMU), and contingency on-orbit  TPS repair hardware and procedures.
 
3)  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, 3 and 4.
 
For STS-5 thru STS-7 Dr. Fisher was assigned as a crew representative to
support vehicle integrated  testing and payload testing at KSC.  In addition,
Dr. 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.  Dr. Fisher was also an on-orbit CAPCOM for the STS-9 mission.
 
Dr. Fisher was a mission specialist on STS 51-A which launched from Kennedy
Space Center, Florida, on November 8, 1984.  She was accompanied by Captain
Frederick (Rick) Hauck (spacecraft commander), Captain David M. Walker (pilot),
and fellow mission specialists, Dr. Joseph P. Allen, and Commander Dale H.
Gardner.  This was the second flight of the orbiter Discovery.  During the
mission the crew deployed two satellites, Canada's Anik D-2 (Telesat H) and
Hughes' LEASAT-1 (Syncom IV-1), and operated the Radiation Monitoring Equipment
(RME) device, and the 3M Company's Diffusive Mixing of Organic Solutions (DMOS)
experiment.  In the first space salvage mission in history the crew also
retrieved for return to earth the Palapa B-2 and Westar VI satellites.  STS
51-A completed 127 orbits of the Earth before landing at Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, on November 16, 1984.  With the completion of her first flight Dr.
Fisher has logged a total of 192 hours in space.
 
Dr. Fisher was assigned as a mission specialist on STS 61-H prior to the
Challenger accident.  Following the accident she worked as the Deputy of the
Mission Development Branch of the Astronaut Office, and as the astronaut office
representative for Flight Data File issues. In that capacity she served as the
crew representative on the Crew Procedures Change Board.  Dr. Fisher also
served on the Astronaut Selection Board for the 1987 class of astronauts.
 
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT:  Dr. Fisher is currently assigned to the Space Station
Support Office where she works parttime in the Space Station Operations
Branch.  She is the crew representative to support space station development in
the areas of training, operations concepts, and the health maintenance
facility.
 
APRIL 1990