William Frederick Fisher

• STS -51 -I ( 1985)

William Frederick Fisher ( born April 1, 1946 in Dallas, Texas ) is a former American astronaut.

Fisher received a bachelor's degree in 1968 from Stanford University and received his doctorate in medicine in 1975 from the University of Florida.

From 1975 to 1977 practiced Fisher at Harbor General Hospital of the University of California, Los Angeles. He then moved from 1977 to 1980 in the emergency medicine, by the way, he was a medical instructor at the University of South Florida.

Astronauts activity

After an unsuccessful bid for the astronaut group 8 Fisher was selected in May 1980 with the 9th group of NASA as an astronaut candidate. Coinciding with different tasks in the astronaut office at NASA, he also worked in the emergency room of a hospital near Houston.

STS -51 -I

August 27, 1985 Fisher started as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery on its first flight into space. The five -man crew brought three communications satellites into orbit. In addition, a suspended with the mission STS -51- D defective satellite was captured, repaired and exposed again. These were performed by Fisher along with his fellow astronaut James van Hoften two spacewalks.

STS -M -61

This mission of the Challenger had in July 1986 a TDRS satellites are put into space. The crew would have consisted of Loren Shriver, Bryan O'Connor, Mark Lee, Sally Ride, William Fisher and the U.S. industry astronaut payload specialist Robert Wood. After the Challenger disaster of this flight was canceled.

According to the NASA

1991 Fisher left NASA and practiced since at Humana Hospital in Webster.

Private

William Fisher is married for the second time and has from his first marriage with the astronaut Anna Fisher two daughters.