William Frederick Fisher
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | May 19, 1980 ( 9th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | August 27, 1985 |
| Landing: | 3rd September 1985 |
| Time in space: | 7d 2h 17min |
| EVA inserts: | 2 |
| EVA total duration: | 11h 46min |
| retired on | January 31, 1991 |
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William Frederick Fisher (born April 1, 1946 in Dallas , Texas ) is a retired American astronaut .
Fisher received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1968 and a doctorate in medicine from the University of Florida in 1975 .
From 1975 to 1977 Fisher practiced at Harbor General Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles . He then switched to emergency medicine from 1977 to 1980, while also serving as a medical instructor at the University of South Florida .
Astronaut activity
After an unsuccessful application for the 8th group of astronauts, Fisher was selected in May 1980 with the 9th group by NASA as an astronaut candidate. Simultaneously with various tasks in the NASA astronaut office, he also worked in the emergency room of a hospital near Houston.
STS-51-I
On August 27, 1985, Fisher started as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Discovery for its first flight into space . The five-man crew put three communications satellites into orbit. In addition, a defective satellite launched on the STS-51-D mission was captured, repaired and then relocated. To this end, Fisher and his astronaut colleague James van Hoften carried out two space exits .
STS-61-M
This Challenger mission should have launched a TDRS satellite in July 1986. The crew would have consisted of Loren Shriver , Bryan O'Connor , Mark Lee , Sally Ride , William Fisher, the US industrial astronaut payload specialist Robert Wood and a meteorologist from the US Air Force (one of the group of three from Grant Aufderhaar, Fred Lewis, Ronald Townsend ) passed. This flight was canceled after the Challenger disaster.
According to NASA
In 1991, Fisher left NASA and has been practicing at Humana Hospital in Webster ever since .
Private
William Fisher is married for the second time and has two daughters from his first marriage to the astronaut Anna Fisher .
See also
Web links
- Short biography of William Frederick Fisher at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of William Frederick Fisher (PDF)
- Biography of William Frederick Fisher in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Fisher, William Frederick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dallas , Texas |