Roberta Lynn Bondar
Born: 4 December 1945, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Died:
Group: CSA Group 1 (5 December 1983)
Status: Resigned
| FAI Flights: | |||
| 1 | STS-42 | 22 January 1992 | 8 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes, 44 seconds |
Education
BS (Zoology and Agriculture), University of Geulph, 1968
MS (Experimental Pathology), University of Western Ontario, 1971
Ph.D (Neurobiology), University of Toronto, 1974
MD McMaster University, 1977
Roberta was the first Canadian woman to go into space. She is a medical doctor with her degree from McMaster University. She was a payload specialist on STS-42. She left the program in the summer of 1992 to return to her research.
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