On November 8, 1984, he launched into space with "Discovery". In a group with four other colleagues they are tasked with gathering information about the future international station, in the creation of which she played an important role.

Until 1978, NASA did not accept women as an asset. That will change that year, provided the women have a degree in mathematics, technology or medicine.

Fisher at the age of 30 will become a member of NASA and 5 years later will travel into space.

She is not the first woman to travel in space, but she is the first mother, as a year before she had given birth to her first child.

She stayed in space for 7 days 23 hours and 44 minutes, making 127 revolutions around the earth.

Returning to our planet, she will characteristically say "Earth does not appear to have borders from space".