William F. Fisher
| William Frederick Fisher, MD | |
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
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April 1, 1946 Dallas, Texas |
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Other occupation
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Emergency physician |
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Time in space
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7d 02h 17m |
| Selection | 1980 NASA Group |
| Missions | STS-51-I |
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Mission insignia
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William Frederick Fisher (born April 1, 1946) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in the early 1990s then opened a private medical practice. His time at NASA coincided with that of his former wife and fellow astronaut Anna Lee Fisher.
Fisher was born April 1, 1946, in Dallas, Texas. He graduated high school in Syracuse, New York, then attended university in California before entering medical school in Florida.
He married fellow physician and later fellow astronaut, Anna Lee Fisher of St. Albans, New York on August 23, 1977. They have two daughters, Kristin Anne (b. July 29, 1983), who is a Washington D.C.-based correspondent for the Fox News Channel, and Kara Lynne (b. January 10, 1989), who is currently enrolled in an MBA program at SMU in Dallas, Texas. The Drs. Fisher were divorced in 2000.
Dr. Fisher collects Bill Graham Fillmore, Family Dog, and other rock/concert music posters from the 1965-1973 time frame. He is an amateur luthier, specializing in making, repairing, and refinishing Neapolitan-style mandolins. Dr. Fisher is also the owner of Twenty-First Century Arms, a sporting goods company, and is both a Federal Firearms Licensee and NFA Firearms Dealer.
Fisher graduated from Stanford University in 1968, and later served as a mountaineering instructor in Leysin, Switzerland. He attended medical school at the University of Florida, graduating in 1975. After medical school, Fisher completed a surgical residency from 1975 to 1977 at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. He entered private practice in emergency medicine in 1977. He also attended graduate school at the University of Houston from 1978 to 1980. He was accepted as a NASA astronaut in 1980.
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