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Recently retired NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher was part of the first Space Shuttle astronaut class. In 1984 she became the first mother to launch into space on the STS-51-A mission.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After conducting a thorough review examining the feasibility of adding a two person crew to the first integrated launch of America's new Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion capsule...

Composite image of Tropical Cyclones Donna (left) and Nineteen (right) encircling Fiji, from EUMETSAT's Metop-A polar orbiting staellite, captured at 06:00 UTC on Tuesday 9 May 2017....

In looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large-impact craters on the planet's surface....

New Fast-Radio-Burst Phenomenon Baffles Astronomers --"Reveals a Previously Unknown Hole in the Milky Galaxy" Newly Discovered TRAPPIST-1 Red-Dwarf Star System --"All Seven Planets Synchronize in Nearly Perfect Time, Wit...

New Fast-Radio-Burst Phenomenon Baffles Astronomers --"Reveals a Previously Unknown Hole in the Milky Galaxy" Newly Discovered TRAPPIST-1 Red-Dwarf Star System --"All Seven Planets Synchronize in Nearly Perfect Time, Wit...

China's first national laboratory for brain-like artificial intelligence (AI) technology was inaugurated Saturday to pool the country's top research talent and boost the technology. China's rapid rise up the ranks of AI ...

NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher, the first mother in space, highlights what is was like to fly on the space shuttle Discovery only months after giving birth to her first daughter.

Astronaut Anna Fisher joined NASA in 1978 and became the first mother to fly in space when she launched on her space shuttle mission. See photos from her space career here. She retired from NASA in 2017.