Astronauts

Julie Payette: Master of Applied Science - Computer Engineering (1990) from the University of Toronto. She has logged more than 1300 hours of flight time. Ms. Payette was Chief Astronaut for the CSA from 2000 to 2007.Ms. Payette was the first Canadian to participate in an ISS assembly mission and to board the Space Station.

Roberta Lynn Bonda:a Doctor of Medicine degree from McMaster University in 1977 .As an undergraduate student she worked for six years for the then federal Fisheries and Forestry Department on genetics of the spruce budworm with reference to the visual system. She is one of the six Canadian astronauts selected in December, 1983 and began astronaut training in February, 1984. In 1985 she was named chairperson of the Canadian Life Sciences Subcommittee for Space Station. She served as a member of the Ontario Premier's Council on Science and Technology.