'It gets better': Roberta Bondar reflects on being first Canadian woman in space
CTV
Saturday will mark 30 years since Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman in space. Bondar's 1992 mission aboard the shuttle Discovery took eight days to complete.
But if that memory is of blasting off to become Canada's first woman in space, it only becomes richer.
"I talk about it a lot, so a lot of it's fresh," says Roberta Bondar, the astronaut-cum-researcher and photographer who celebrates the three-decade anniversary of her flight on Saturday.
"But a lot of it is me viewing it retrospectively with the smarts I have today and the wisdom that I've gained in the 30 years to look at that moment in my life and see things a little differently than I did years ago."
Bondar's 1992 mission aboard the shuttle Discovery took eight days. She had spent the previous eight years of her life preparing for the flight and the on-board research she led on the affect of low gravity on life.
