Twenty-five years ago Sunday, Dr. Roberta Bondar blasted off into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery, securing her place in history as Canada's first woman astronaut and the first ever neurologist in space.
The famous Sault native sat down with the CBC's Peter Mansbridge to talk about all that, and about her childhood dream of spaceflight. And they put it on Youtube, so here you go!
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