Roberta Bondar

Roberta Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, physician, neurologist, and photographer who became the first Canadian woman in space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1992.

Marc Garneau: A Canadian astronaut and politician who became the first Canadian in space in 1984. His earlier spaceflight established a Canadian precedent Bondar followed as the first Canadian woman in space.
Space Shuttle Discovery: The NASA Space Shuttle orbiter that flew 39 missions between 1984 and 2011. Discovery carried Bondar and the STS-42 crew into orbit.
Space medicine: The study and practice of protecting human health during spaceflight and space exploration. Bondar’s medical training informed research on the human body in space.
Canadian women in space: Women from Canada who have flown in space as professional astronauts. Bondar’s 1992 flight began this national milestone as its first woman astronaut in space.
Steve MacLean: A Canadian astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and later led the Canadian Space Agency. He was another Canadian payload specialist who flew during the shuttle era.
International Microgravity Laboratory 1: A Spacelab research mission that studied physical and biological processes in microgravity. The STS-42 laboratory provided the setting for many of Bondar’s experiments.
Neurology: The medical specialty concerned with the nervous system and its disorders. Her physician-scientist career centered on neurological research and clinical expertise.
Mae Jemison: An American physician and astronaut who became the first Black woman in space in 1992. Jemison’s flight in the same year places Bondar’s achievement within a wider moment in spaceflight history.
Roberta Bondar's STS-42 mission: The 1992 Space Shuttle mission on which Roberta Bondar conducted microgravity research. This mission was Bondar’s sole spaceflight and the setting for her research.
Microgravity: A condition of apparent weightlessness in which gravitational effects are small relative to a system’s motion. Bondar’s experiments examined biological responses under orbital microgravity.

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Chris HadfieldRelated: Bondar’s 1992 flight preceded Hadfield’s and marked an earlier milestone for Canadian astronauts.