ROBERTA BONDAR

The first Canadian woman in space, first neurologist in space and first non-american woman to fly on a U.S. space shuttle.

Camping with my parents on the north shore of Lake Superior and looking up at the night sky was my inspiration. It was a world that there were very few answers to at the time, and it was one that could stretch your imagination. Later, I avidly followed the space program and used to build plastic model rockets. My parents never told me that women couldn’t do this or couldn’t do that.