Media Spokesperson
Respected for her expertise and animated commentary, Roberta Bondar has been a guest of television and radio networks such as CNN, BBC, PBS and CBC throughout the U.S. and Canada. She is featured in the IMAX movie Destinty in Space, and appeared for Disney at the opening of the new technology theme ride Mission Space. Dr. Bondar has also co-anchored the Discovery Channel's coverage of space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral.
BONDAR FAST FACTS
For almost 20 years, Dr. Roberta Bondar has been on the scientific forefront in how the brain adapts to unfamiliar environments.
Her achievements include:
• World's first astronaut-neurologist
• On the space shuttle Discovery mission STS 42 in 1992, Dr. Bondar conducted scientific experiments in the First International Microgravity Laboratory
• For more than a decade at NASA Dr. Bondar headed an international space medicine research team, continuing to find new connections between astronauts recovering from floating in space and neurological illnesses here on Earth (e.g. stroke and Parkinson's disease).
• Techniques developed br Dr. Bondar's research team have been used in clinical studies at BI Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and at the University of New Mexico
• Currently, Dr. Bondar is in her second term as Chancellor of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.