 The spacesuit was featured on "The Universe television series", which followed Bonta into zero gravity to film an episode titled "Sex in Space" that aired in 2009 on the History Channel.On 13 November 2013, a haiku by Bonta was one of 1,100 haiku launched from Cape Canaveral on the NASA spacecraft MAVEN to Mars.Bonta was born in the United States to Maria Luisa Bonta (née Ugolini), an artist from Florence, Italy, and James Cecil Bonta, a military officer from Kentucky.