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Roberta Lynn Bondar, CC, OOnt, FRSC, astronaut, neurologist, physician, educator, photographer (born 4 December 1945 in Sault Ste Marie, ON). Bondar became the first Canadian woman and second Canadian in space when she flew aboard the American space shuttle Discovery in 1992. A doctor specializing in the nervous system, she is a pioneer in ...
Betty Ida Roots. Roberta Lynn Bondar (/ ˈbɒndər /; born December 4, 1945) is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine research team collaborating with NASA, Bondar became a consultant and ...
Roberta Bondar (born December 4, 1945, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian neurologist, researcher, and astronaut. She was the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist to travel into space. Bondar earned a B.Sc. in zoology and agriculture from the University of Guelph (1968), an M.Sc. in experimental pathology from the ...
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She was appointed assistant professor of medicine (neurology) in 1982-84. She is one of the six Canadian astronauts selected in December, 1983 and began astronaut training in February, 1984. In 1985 she was named chairperson of the Canadian Life Sciences Subcommittee for Space Station. She served as a member of the Ontario Premier's Council on ...
Jan 18, 2022 · In 1992 Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian Woman in Space. “If you ask me for one thing I remember from the flight, it’s seeing the edge of the Earth and seeing the reality of Earth as a planet,” says the 76-year-old Roberta Bondar, who will mark the weekend anniversary with an online celebration. Bondar’s 1992 mission aboard the ...
Jan 18, 2022 · Most memories, after 30 years, start to fade. But if that memory is of blasting off to become Canada's first woman in space, it only becomes richer. "I talk about it a lot, so a lot of it's fresh ...
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Jan 16, 2022 · America's first woman in space was Sally Ride, a California physicist aboard the Challenger's STS-7 mission that blasted off on June 18, 1983. Currently, NASA's Artemis program aims to land the ...
