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Day OF The 30th Anniversary Event

Roberta Bondar reflects on becoming first Canadian woman in space Michael Serapio | CBC News
Roberta Bondar, the first female astronaut from Canada, marks 30 years since her mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. She says the experience made her realize how much the Earth meant to her.

Canada’s 1st female astronaut reflects on growing up in northern Ontario Morning North | CBC Sudbury

It’s HOT SAUCE DAY and the ANNIVERSARY OF ROBERTA BONDAR GOING TO SPACE Eric Tigley | Life Drawing for CBC

Bondar’s foundation recognizes Air Canada Brian Kelly | SaultStar .com
Air Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions in global operations by 2050. The company is a founding member of Aviation Climate Taskforce, formed to deal with rising carbon dioxide emissions from commercial aviation.

University of Guelph
GuelphBugle.ca

In this press release, the University of Guelph, a co-sponsor of “An Evening with Dr. Roberta Bondar and Friends”, shares rare background facts about Bondar’s undergraduate schooling. The how and why she suddenly added a zoology major in her third year reveals her determination and sharpening focus in recovering from injury. It further explains how her University of Guelph mixed curriculum gave her a broad base for her future studies and subsequent careers.

Ben Evans
AmericaSpace .com

How the catastrophic loss of shuttle Challenger then delays in rescheduling on Columbia then Atlantis moved the First International Microgravity Laboratory to Discovery. What the new inclined orbit allowed. How the crew was assembled and reassembled. How experiments meant for a two-week flight were managed in a non-stop two-team shift… in eight days.

A great read.

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Day Before The 30th Anniversary Event

Alumna Roberta Bondar marks 30th anniversary of historic spaceflight” | UTMiss

Dr. Roberta Bondar reflects on 30 years since the Discovery mission | Jeff McArthur and Carolyn MacKenzie | The Morning Show Global Toronto

Talking with Dr. Roberta Bondar | Noor Ibrahim | Global News Morning Peterborough

Catching up with Canadian icon Dr. Roberta Bondar | Antony Robart | Global News Mornings Toronto

Dr. Roberta Bondar looks back at her historic space trip, 30 years later | CTV Your Morning

Exclusive interview with first female Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar | CTV Morning Live

Roberta Bondar: Trailblazer in space, explorer on Earth Keri Ferguson | Western News

Astronaut Roberta Bondar is Cultivating Curiosity on Earth, 30 years after she saw it from space Ivan Semeniuk | Globe and Mail

Roberta Bondar reflects on space flight, nature and the cake she almost didn’t have Nicole Mortillaro | CBC News
includes:

captioned photos
video clips:
- Ian Hanomansing talks to Dr. Bondar about the legacy of her 1st spaceflight
- CBC National’s 1992 report on Dr. Roberta Bondar’s flight
- Astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons shares her scrapbook with Roberta

Ian Hanomansing talks to Dr. Bondar about the legacy of her 1st spaceflight

Astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons shares her scrapbook with Roberta

Lisa LaFlamme
CTV National News

Thirty years after becoming the first Canadian woman and the world’s first neurologist in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar joined CTV News Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme for a one-on-one interview. Bondar told how, while travelling on orbit, the sight and experience of Earth as a planet below her sparked her desire to pay more attention to what was on its surface. LaFlamme led her into reflections on how astronauts working in space and recovering after flight lead to new discoveries and benefits to helping humans on Earth.

She continued over a range of topics from space tourism to diversity in crew selection to how Learning is a lifetime activity with the Sciences developing certain skill sets and the Arts giving us ways to create with them and to express ourselves.

Full interview: Dr. Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman to go to space, to mark 30th anniversary of groundbreaking work

Shaye Ganam
CHED Mid-Morning with Shaye Ganam

Ganam and Bondar discuss Life experiences. Bondar acknowledges she has several peaks in her life and preparing for a flight after the Challenger accident was certainly one of them. But the on-orbit eyeball-filling darkness of space around our planet and the thinness of our atmosphere appearing against it were some motivators in pursuing her next three decades:

supporting two dozen missions of astronauts and cosmonauts cope in microgravity and back into gravity and pursuing how these techniques, tests, and new knowledge knowledge help people on Earth with various diseases
leaving research to take large format cameras into all our national parks then onto other arid edges of the planet
using the Foundation to help others share what is precious to them about the natural environment and others connect/reconnect to the natural world for good mental health and creative stimulation.

Explore. Learn. Enable others to. Repeat.

Dr. Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman to go to space, to mark 30th anniversary of groundbreaking work

Two women talking over video conferencing

Thirty years after becoming the first Canadian woman and the world’s first neurologist in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar joined CTV News Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme for a one-on-one interview.

While travelling on orbit, Bondar says the sight and experience of Earth as a planet below her sparked her desire to explore more of its surface.

She discussed a range of topics from the medical benefits of how bodies working in space and recovering after orbit spark new discoveries and benefits to treating humans on Earth. Working on the moon. Space tourism. Diversity in crew selection. Learning as a lifetime activity with the Sciences developing certain skill sets and the Arts giving us ways to create with them and to express ourselves.

Full interview: Dr. Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman to go to space, to mark 30th anniversary of groundbreaking work

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!

Bob Weber
The Canadian Press

Weber interviews Dr. Bondar about the 30th anniversary of her flight as Canada’s first woman in space. Bondar recognizes that she’s had the three decades to view the time of her flight with the further experiences she’s had and the wisdom she’s gained and sees that moment in her life differently.

As the world’s first neurologist in space, she’d spent eight years preparing for the flight and the following decade working in space medicine and academia.

Bondar says that the physical and visual experiences of seeing Earth’s edge and realizing how small we are becomes a perspective-shifting moment. Determined to motivate people to love our natural environments, she continues to capture large landscapes from around the world to bring environments without visible borders or human presence to viewers in galleries, books, and travelling exhibitions with components from her Foundation’s educational and research programs.

For full interview: ‘It gets better’: Roberta Bondar reflects on being first Canadian woman in space

Piya Chattopadhyay
The Sunday Magazine (CBC)

Thirty years after becoming the first neurologist and the first Canadian woman in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar joins Chattopadhyay to reflect on her historic mission and legacy. She also shares her lifelong passion to help Canadians embrace creativity and curiosity about the natural world, and talks about the work that still needs to be done to make space programs more inclusive.

Canada’s 1st female astronaut challenges space program to evolve

ROBERTA BONDAR ~ DAY OF 30th ANNIVERSARY EVENT

University of Guelph Alumna Roberta Bondar Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Shuttle Flight

‘Vibration and Raw Power’: Remembering STS-42’s Mission for Science, 30 Years On

ROBERTA BONDAR CHEERED ON TO 30th ANNIVERSARY EVENT

Roberta Bondar Foundation awards Air Canada with inaugural Award for Innovation and
Creativity for its protection of the environment

Dr. Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman to go to space, to mark 30th anniversary of groundbreaking work

Roberta Bondar reflects on being first Canadian woman in space

How Dr. Bondar continues learning

Thirty years on, ‘spaceman’ Roberta Bondar is still flying high

‘It gets better’: Roberta Bondar reflects on being first Canadian woman in space

Roberta Bondar left Earth 30 years ago and never saw the planet the same after that

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