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Roberta
Lynn Bondar(-) Space Shuttle astronaut Biographical Data Born Education Elementary and Secondary Sault
Ste. Marie Medical/Research/Teaching Career Assistant Professor of Medicine
(Neurology), McMaster University, 1982-1984 Spaceflight Career One of the six original Canadian astronauts selected
in December 1983. Served as chairperson of the Canadian Life Sciences
Subcommittee for Space Station from 1985 to 1989. Designated a prime Payload Specialist for the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission (IML-1) in 1990. Flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery during Mission STS-42, January 22-30, 1992, where she performed life science and material science experiments in the Spacelab and on the middeck. She was the first non-American woman to fly on the Space Shuttle. Left the Canadian Space Agency effective September 4, 1992, to pursue her research. Writings Touching the Earth |
Astronaut Biographies. www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/Bondar.html Official Website of Dr. Roberta Bondar. www.robertabondar.ca |
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