U.S. Astronaut reignites 911 Turbo passion, some 40 years later

Aiming Higher

Dr. Anna Lee Fisher started out as a medical professional – the training for which she regards as the toughest challenge she ever faced. As a reward, in 1977, she purchased a Porsche 911 Turbo – her pride and joy. Soon after, she would leave the medical profession to join the astronaut corps, and she said goodbye to her treasured Garnet Red sports car and focused on her dream of flying into space. Forty years to the day since Dr. Anna Lee Fisher realized that dream, a short film captures the moment she was reunited with a 911 Turbo – igniting the spark once again for a car she’d said goodbye to four decades previously.

“I’ve always loved Porsche from the time I was little,” Dr. Fisher recently reminisced from behind the wheel, “My mom and my grandmother are from Germany, and one of my uncles had a Porsche and used to take me on rides all the time.”