Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first female astronaut, sits in front of a computer screen with the delicate curvature of Earth hanging in the blackness of space as her background.
It’s not a photo she took, but it’s a view she remembers well.
“I’d been working so hard for a couple of days,” she recalled of her flight on board the space shuttle Discovery in 1992, 30 years ago this week.
“And [Commander Ronald Grabe] just said, ‘Roberta, I’m not gonna let this flight go by with you working as hard as you are without looking out the window.’ And so he had me
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