Thirty years on, ‘spaceman’ Roberta Bondar is still flying high
Chris Knight
National Post.com
Chris Knight can ask questions! His interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar covered wide-ranging discussions from
- recordings of Canadians she took into space with her and when she played them on orbit
- how physical and visual experiences of seeing Earth’s edge and realizing how small we are becomes a perspective-shifting moment missing Earth sounds like birdsong
- her internationally designed AMASS | SpaceForBirds project to research endangered bird species, to understand habitats and help conservation efforts
- her belief that although we’ve engineered some of the difficulties we now face, we can also engineer the solutions
- how astronauts really want to discover stuff, to explore
- how eloquent Shatner was on his return from his brief time in space
- how sunsets lead to stars and a whole new world … and its promise
- that spaceflight gives us the opportunity to view for the absolute first time ever so many things we still don’t know about the human body
- and more, much more. For full interview: Thirty years on, ‘spaceman’ Roberta Bondar is still flying high!