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Roberta Bondar

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Also known as Roberta Lynn Bondar

Canadian astronaut

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Roberta Bondar was born on December 4, 1945. She is associated with the city of Ottawa and has spent 11626 units of time in space. Her official website is robertabondar.com.

In the field of music, she is identified as a group with genres including noise, Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock, punk rock, and noise rock. She has 324 listeners and a playcount of 5477.

As an author, she has seven works, including "On the Shuttle," "Canada," "Canada a Landscape of Dreams," and "Neurofibrillar and neurofilamentous changes in goldfish (Carassius auratus L.) in relation to temperature." Crossref lists five works for her. She is referenced by 259 other encyclopedia articles.

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Key facts

Born
( 1945-12-04 ) December 4, 1945 (age 80) , Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario , Canada
Alma mater
University of Guelph (BSc) University of Western Ontario (MSc) Erindale College, Toronto (PhD) McMaster University ( MD )
Occupations
Neurologist scientist educator author photographer astronaut
Status
Retired
Time in space
8 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes
Selection
1983 NRC Group
Missions
STS-42
Fields
Neurobiology
Thesis
Neurofibrillar and neurofilamentous changes in goldfish (Carassius auratus L.) in relation to temperature (1974)
Doctoral advisor
Betty Ida Roots

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Roberta
Family name
Bondar
Gender
female
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Sault Ste. Marie
Occupation
physician
Employer
NASA
Field of work
space medicine
Official website
www.robertabondar.com
Image
Roberta Bondar2.jpg
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Commons category
Roberta Bondar
date of birth
1945-12-04
P450
STS-42
time in space
11626
name in native language
Roberta Bondar
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Encyclopedic overview

Roberta Lynn Bondar (/ˈbɒndər/; born December 4, 1945) is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.

After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine research team collaborating with NASA, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roberta Bondar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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