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Pre-space Flight. Official Portrait - Download. Going out to the launch pad with the STS crew. Bondar walking out to the launch pad, waving her arms in the air a CBC journalist was waving both the Canadian and the Girl Guides of Canada flag.
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Bondar became the first Canadian woman and second Canadian in space when she flew aboard the American space shuttle Discovery in A doctor specializing in the nervous system, she is a pioneer in space medicine research.
Bondar is also an exhibited and published nature photographer. Payload specialist : A space shuttle crew member responsible for scientific experiments, cargo, or specific mission objectives. Shuttle missions typically last one to two weeks. Roberta Bondar is the second of two daughters born to Edward and Mildred Bondar. Edward worked as an office manager for the Sault Ste Marie Public Utilities Commission, and Mildred was a business and commerce teacher.
Bondar was also very interested in science ; her father built a laboratory in their basement so she could conduct experiments.
Bondar spent summers working as a science researcher with the federal Department of Fisheries and Forestry in Sault Ste Marie. Bondar attended the University of Guelph , where she completed a Bachelor of Science in zoology and agriculture in She continued in higher education, earning a Master of Science in experimental pathology from the University of Western Ontario in , a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Toronto in , and a Doctor of Medicine from McMaster University in Roberta Bondar worked as a clinical science researcher and neurologist, a doctor who specializes in the nervous system.
She was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal College of Physicians in for neurology. Bondar was an assistant professor of medicine neurology at McMaster University from to Roberta Bondar applied immediately.
After six months of interviews and tests, she was chosen as one of six Canadians admitted to the program see Canadian Astronauts. Her research and clinical work on the nervous system had immediate relevance to experiments planned for the first Canadian spaceflight.
She would be in charge of the experiments for the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission - a mission that would use experiments from around the world to study the effects of weightlessness on the human body. Roberta Bondar's training was perfect for this mission. She flew on the space shuttle Discovery from January , It was on this flight that she became the first Canadian woman, and the first neurologist, in space.
All of these are accomplishments she feels very proud of, but mostly she was proud of the fact that she flew as a Canadian astronaut. That said, she isn't a fan of a proposal put forward by National Geographic to gather an all-female crew for a future mission to Mars. The article, which was part of a special commemorative issue about the Apollo mission and the future of space travel, posited that because women on average weigh less than men, they would need less fuel to be transported.
Plus, an all-women crew with male sperm samples safely tucked in the cargo hold would be well-suited to off-world population efforts. We can't do that just with one segment of our population, with one gender. We just can't. NASA recently pledged to put a man and a woman onto the moon by , as part of its Artemis program, with the hopes of building a permanent human presence on Earth's lone satellite.
Bondar believes, however, that Canada has an advantage precisely because of its diversity. Click 'listen' near the top of this page to hear the full conversation. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.
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