mac flew higher than my hopes for the future *ago

By the time Apollo 11 launched, she held a Bachelor of Science in zoology and agriculture from the University of Guelph, and was midway through her Master of Science in experimental pathology from Western. As a girl of eight, Bondar already had dreams of being a “spaceman,” as she said at the time. “We need to have a foot on some kind of ground…” Photo by NASA “My research work in space medicine made me understand that we need more than a space station to do it,” she says. Oswald, spent eight days on Discovery in 1992. Article content Roberta Bondar, with pilot Stephen S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. That was one of my main personal goals when I went to space, and it’s allowed me to carry on with my work here on Earth.” And why I was really happy to have been as prepared as I was, mentally and emotionally, to view the Earth. “And it’s that emotion over a period of time that I think I respect more and more, and what a unique opportunity it was. “Maybe you don’t want to escape that moment, but sometimes you just can’t escape that moment. (Or Roberta Bondar, I can’t help thinking.) “This person becomes a living, breathing thing in front of you in three dimensions,” she says. She compares the experience with meeting someone famous, like Queen Elizabeth or Wayne Gretzky. That’s what I remember most, is the reality of it.”

The highlight of my flight was basically seeing the Earth as a planet, which is a reality moment that I would not give up. “Some things that were really important to me at the time are maybe now on reflection not so important. “Through the 30-year lens things do take a different shape,” she recalls. It was the same spot from where Apollo 11 had leaped to the moon, 23 years earlier. 22, 1992, with the shuttle Discovery lifting off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. But of course I also want to know about those eight days, 4.7 million kilometres and 129 orbits that began on Jan.

But when I remark on it she points out that it’s an image of Nova Scotia’s Kejimkujik National Park, home to the sandpiper-like (and very cute) piping plover.Īs a consultant, public speaker, frequent elementary school guest and lecturer, Bondar can hold forth for as long as you’d like on matters avian, conservational, neurological or photographical. At first I take this to be a random shot chosen to represent her credentials as Canada’s first female astronaut, not to mention the first neurologist in space. When I connect with Bondar in her Toronto home over a Zoom call, I notice that her background is an image of the Earth from space.

Mac flew higher than my hopes for the future *ago