Bondar giving a 2007 presentation on environmentalism

Subsequently, Bondar led an international team of researchers at NASA for more than a decade, examining data obtained from astronauts on space missions to better understand the mechanisms underlying the body's ability to recover from exposure to space.

Dr. Bondar has also been a consultant and speaker to diverse organizations, drawing on her expertise as an astronaut, physician, scientific researcher, photographer, author, environment interpreter and team leader.

On June 28, 2011 it was announced that Bondar will receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and will be inducted on October 1 at Elgin Theatre in Toronto.

Bondar has also been honoured with a marker on Sault Ste.

* Video: Dr. Roberta Bondar on patriotism following the Olympics & her favourite technology ( from NAIT's techlife magazine )

Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space on January 22

Bondar has received many honours including the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the NASA Space Medal, over 22 honorary degrees and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

** STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.

* January 22: On STS-42, Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.

Roberta Bondar (; born December 4, 1945 ) is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.

Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities.

Bondar graduated from Sir James Dunn High School in Sault Ste.

Bondar also has certification in sky diving and parachuting.

A celebrated landscape photographer, Bondar studied professional nature photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California.

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Respected for her expertise and commentary, Bondar has been a guest of television and radio networks throughout the U. S. and Canada.

Bondar served two terms as the Chancellor of Trent University, from 2003 to 2009.

Marie, the Roberta Bondar Park and tent pavilion bear her name, as does the marina beside the park and the Ontario government building at 70 Foster Drive.

In 1996, the Dr. Roberta Bondar Public School was opened in Ajax, Ontario and Roberta Bondar Public School was opened in Ottawa, Ontario.

In 2005, another public school named Roberta Bondar Public School opened in Brampton, Ontario.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

The fish hawk flew on and was lost from sight.

The small car flew on relentlessly.

The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping out as it flew.

Rumors flew from lip to lip that Fidel Castro was on his way to Havana, coming from the mountains where he had fought Batista for five years.

Subsequently, Roosa and Mitchell were recycled to serve as members of the backup crew after returning from Apollo 14, while Pogue and Carr were re-assigned to the Skylab program where they later flew on Skylab 4.

The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

Between 2 and 4 September 2011 on labor day weekend, the Blue Angels flew for the first time with a 50 – 50 blend of conventional JP-5 jet fuel and a camelina-based biofuel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River airshow at Patuxent River, Maryland.

McWherter flew an F / A-18 test flight on 17 August and stated there were no noticeable differences in performance from inside the cockpit.

France then flew in 300 troops and put three Dassault Mirage F1 jet fighters based in nearby Gabon on standby.

The first problem that caused the pause in reconnaissance flights took place on August 30, an Air Force Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) U-2 flew over Sakhalin Island in the Far East by mistake.

In December 1936, Chiang flew to Xi ' an to coordinate a major assault on the Red Army and the Communist Republic that had retreated into Yan ' an.

Subsequently, B-52G bombers flew more than 200 17-hour bombing missions over 44 days and dropped more than of bombs on Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait.

Thomas flew to the States on 19 October 1953 for his final tour.

Kaye flew his own plane to 65 cities in five days on a mission designed to help UNICEF.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

Before the Ethiopian civil war, the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, flew to numerous African, Asian, and European cities, and had sole rights on domestic air traffic.

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

In 1956, Sullivan flew to Europe and was able to film an interview with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes on the set of the film Anastasia.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters ( who replaced Goff in late 2005 ) flew into Fiji on 8 February 2006 for three days of talks with Fijian government officials.

British colonies typically flew a flag based on one of the ensigns based on this flag, and many former colonies have retained the design to acknowledge their cultural history.

With his engine afire, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft ; the other man's parachute did not open.

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.