https://twitter.com/csa_asc/status/1483801438866198530Dr. Roberta Bondar celebrates 30 years since her first spaceflightExclusive interview with first female Canadian astronaut Roberta BondarRoberta Bondar reflects on space flight, nature and the cake she almost didn't haveNicole Mortillaro · CBC News · Posted: Jan 21, 2022 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: January 22, 2022
30 years ago, Bondar was the first Canadian woman in space spending 8 days on the shuttle Discovery
Roberta Bondar is seen here at the edge of Lake Elementaita, Kenya, watching for lesser flamingoes. Dr. Bondar celebrates the 30th anniversary of her voyage into space on Jan. 22. (Submitted by Roberta Bondar)Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, sits in front of a computer screen with the delicate curvature of Earth hanging in the blackness of space as her background.
It's not a photo she took, but it's a view she remembers well.
"I'd been working so hard for a couple of days," she recalled of her flight on board the space shuttle Discovery in 1992, 30 years ago this week.
"And [Commander Ronald Grabe] just said, 'Roberta, I'm not gonna let this flight go by with you working as hard as you are without looking out the window.' And so he had me come up to the flight deck."
Down below was the Pacific Ocean, its vastness punctuated by the small islands of Hawaii.
"I must say that it was spectacular." (...)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/roberta-bondar-anniversary-1.6320681Roberta Bondar on career challenges and advice to young womenJUL 04, 2016 BY MICHELA ROSANO
As the first Canadian woman in space and the first astronaut-neurologist, Roberta Bondar has explored the farthest reaches of our planet, been at the cutting edge of science and shattered society’s expectations of women. Her latest foray into the world of photography has taken her to some of the most extreme places on Earth and allowed her to share her unique perspective of Canada.
On what drives herThe first thing is curiosity, the second is having a passion to discover how things work and explain it to other people and the third is having a strategy to succeed. Those are the three main areas that have driven me in the past and have kept driving me. There are things that are more difficult as I get older and have more injuries. I have some physical constraints that I didn’t have before, but I’ve balanced those with some of the leaps that I’ve made emotionally and intellectually. (...)
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/roberta-bondar-on-career-challenges-and-advice-to-young-women/https://worldnewstimes.com/roberta-bondar-flew-into-space-30-years-ago-and-never-saw-earth-the-same-after-that/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/roberta-bondar-space-discovery-anniversary-1.6323201http://saulthistory.ssmpl.ca/Bondar_Canadian.htmlhttp://www.heroines.ca/people/bondar.htmlSpace for Birds': Astronaut Roberta Bondar captures avian habitats from Earth, in air and on orbit in new book (interview)September 17, 2024 — Roberta Bondar knew that she would not be able to hear birds, let alone seen them from space, but when she really thought about it, their absence struck her deeply.
So much so, that ever since becoming Canada's first woman in space in 1992, Bondar has focused her cameras on natural environments, most recently in support of AMASS (Avian Migration Aerial, Surface, Space), a research project also known as "Space for Birds."
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091724a-space-for-birds-astronaut-roberta-bondar-interview.html
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