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Doctor. Team Canada athlete. Astronaut-candidate. And she's just 32.

Dr. Shawna Pandya is an accomplished young woman with her sights on a new dream: to practice medicine in space.

Doctor. Team Canada athlete. Astronaut-candidate. And she's just 32.

8 years ago
Duration 15:29
Dr. Shawna Pandya has a dream: to practice medicine in space

Dr. Shawna Pandya has a dream: to practice medicine in space.

Pandya is an astronaut candidate and volunteers for the company Final Frontier to test space suits. That's in addition to being a physician and a Team Canada athlete with a black belt in Taekwando. 

What is the best feeling in the world? Being in a spacesuit.- Dr. Shawna Pandya

This accomplished young woman is one of a new generation of passionate change-makers profiled in CBC's new series We Are Canada. Watch the series Sundays at 7 p.m. on CBC and online.