women in space story board
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- I want to be a spaceman when I grow up!!
- Yeah! That's a great idea!
- But.. but.. I ..
- Taking sciences in university is not going to benefit you in any way, my dear...
- Roberta was interested in space as a child: “When I was eight years old, to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.”
- Her high school guidance counsellor tried to dissuade her from pursuing science in university, believing that it wasn’t a subject for girls, but Bondar persisted.
- In 1985, she was named chairperson of Parliament’s Canadian Life Sciences Subcommittee for the Space Station.
- THE ROBERTA BONDAR FOUNDATION
- On 22 January 1992, Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman, the second Canadian, and the first neurologist in space.
- Canadian Space Agency
- After retiring from the Canadian Space Agency, Roberta Bondar studied professional nature photography She published a visual and written chronicle of her experiences in space, Touching the Earth, in 1994
- In 2009 she established The Roberta Bondar Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that seeks to educate people about environmental protection through art
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