Dr. Roberta Bondar, born December 4, 1945 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is the first Canadian female astronaut and flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-42) in January 1992 as a payload specialist. Before becoming an astronaut, Dr. Bondar received a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Toronto and then a Doctor of Medicine from McMaster University in Ontario.
After her only shuttle flight, she served as the head of NASA's space medicine.
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