In 1984, 14 months after giving birth, the astronaut made history as the first mom to blast into space.
Astronaut Anna Fisher kisses her daughter Kristin after training in Houston for a spacewalk in 1985. By Jessica Contrera Jessica Contrera Enterprise reporter focusing on stories about people whose lives are affected by what's happening in the news Email Bio Follow May 11 at 7:00 AM The moment Anna Lee Fisher had been waiting for came on a hot summer afternoon in 1983. Five years had passed since Fisher and five other women were chosen to become America’s first female astronauts.
Anna Fisher, the first mother to go to space, visits her daughter and granddaughter in Washington. The three generations, pictured from left to right, are Anna Fisher, 16-month-old Clara Fisher Forehand and Kristin Fisher Forehand. “I always grew up thinking I could have a demanding full-time job and be a mom,” Kristin said. “The example that she set for me, it was never a question.
NASA's first female astronauts, from left: Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. There were six women in the class of 35 new astronauts — all of whom were determined to ensure their male colleagues treated them as equally qualified. Sally Ride, who would become the first American woman in space, went shopping with Fisher for baggy khaki pants so they would be wearing outfits similar to NASA’s men.
“They never had pumping rooms or anything like that,” Fisher remembered. “ It never even occurred to me to ask for one. It never occurred to any of us to ask for special accommodations for anything.” On the day she walked out to the launchpad in Florida, her husband used his NASA access to make sure that he, Kristin and Fisher’s mom could be there to wave goodbye. Then Fisher climbed aboard Discovery and shot into the sky.
After the Challenger, the shuttle program ground to a halt, and Fisher took a seven-year leave of absence to raise Kristin and have her second child, Kara.
इंडिया ताज़ा खबर, इंडिया मुख्य बातें
Similar News:आप इससे मिलती-जुलती खबरें भी पढ़ सकते हैं जिन्हें हमने अन्य समाचार स्रोतों से एकत्र किया है।
'Anna Delvey' Says She Isn't Sorry For Any Of Her Scams“I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything.'
और पढो »
Rape survivor sues college, claims she was threatened with expulsion if she spoke out'Plaintiff came in and out of consciousness multiple times throughout this sexual assault and every time yelled out ‘NO! STOP! I DON’T WANT THIS!’'
और पढो »
Jerrie Cobb Passed Astronaut Tests but NASA Kept Her Out of SpaceOklahoma-born pilot Jerrie Cobb, shut out of Mercury program, flew food and medicine to indigenous people in Amazon.
और पढो »
How NASA plans to redirect a near-Earth asteroidNASA astronomers are trying to deflect a near-Earth asteroid for the first time.
और पढो »
Why NASA just destroyed a simulated New York City with a huge fake asteroidWhy NASA just destroyed a simulated New York City with a huge fake asteroid. - NBCNewsMACH
और पढो »
Elon Musk Made Fun Of Jeff Bezos' Moon Plans. He Wasn't The Only OneThe two space billionaires have previously jousted over whose rocket is bigger.
और पढो »