Date of Birth	Born December 4, 1945 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Education	Degrees: B.Sc. in zoology and agriculture, University of Guelph, 1968, M. Sc. in experimental pathology, University of Western Ontario, 1971, Ph.D. in neurobiology, University of Toronto, 1974, M.D., McMaster University, 1977. Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a specialist in neurology in 1981.
Occupation	Neurologist & Researcher
Contribution to Space Travel	First Canadian female to go into space
Space Missions	Carried out research in the space shuttle Discovery in 1992 on how the human body reacts to weightlessness, and how a lack of gravity affects the growth of plants.
Outside Activities	Photography, biking, hot air ballooning, roller blading, and flying
Interesting Fact(s)	Wrote a book entitled "Touching the Earth".
Status	Left the Canadian Space Agency September 4, 1992, to pursue her research and teaching at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto
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Links	http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/bondar.html http://www.senecac.on.ca/bondar/qabondar.html http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Medicentre/en/bond_vit.htm http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Bondar.html http://www.edmc.net/ces2001/pdfs/BondarBio_E.pdf

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