Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.
Recognized while still a child for her intellectual brilliance, Resnik was accepted at Carnegie Institute of Technology after becoming only the sixteenth woman in the history of the United States to have attained a perfect score on the SAT exam. She graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon before attaining a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.
Resnik worked for RCA as an engineer on Navy missile and radar projects, as a senior systems engineer for Xerox Corporation, and published research on special-purpose integrated circuitry. She was also a pilot and made research contributions to biomedical engineering as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health.
At age 28, Resnik was selected by NASA as a mission specialist. She was part of NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women. While training on the astronaut program, she developed software and operating procedures for NASA missions. Her first space flight was the STS-41-D mission in August and September 1984, the twelfth Space Shuttle flight, and the maiden voyage of Space ShuttleDiscovery, where her duties included operating its robotic arm. Her second Shuttle mission was STS-51-L in January 1986 aboard Space ShuttleChallenger. She died when the orbiter broke up shortly after liftoff and crashed into the ocean.
Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut...
Scobee, pilot Michael J. Smith, mission specialists Ronald McNair, JudithResnik, and payload specialists Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe. The shuttle...
assigned as the pilot, and the mission specialists were Ellison Onizuka, JudithResnik, and Ronald McNair. The two payload specialists were Gregory Jarvis...
specialist JudithResnik, and pilot Michael J. Smith. The location of Smith's activation switch, on the back side of his seat, means that either Resnik or Onizuka...
Guion Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, as well as Dr. JudithResnik and Dr. Ronald McNair, who both flew successful missions during the...
specialists Dr. Ronald McNair, Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka (USAF), Dr. JudithResnik, and fellow civilian payload specialist Christa McAuliffe. The entire...
Shannon Lucid Ronald McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka JudithResnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard...
woman to fly on the maiden crewed flight of an orbital spacecraft type (JudithResnik was the first female crew member on the maiden flight of an orbital...
Challenger crew: (front row) Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair; (back row) Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, JudithResnik...
six Mission specialists (not pilots): Anna L. Fisher, Shannon Lucid, Judith A. Resnik, Sally K. Ride, Margaret Rhea Seddon, and Kathryn D. Sullivan. Similarly...
Gregory Jarvis, JudithResnik, Ellison Onizuka, and Christa McAuliffe—died. Scobee, McNair, Resnik, and Onizuka had flown before. Resnik was the second...
Kaptur Karen Nussbaum Mary Rose Oakar Catherine Pinkerton Willa Player JudithResnik Helen Hooven Santmyer Marian Trimble Joyce Wollenberg 1985 Lois Anna...
American astronaut (b. 1950) Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (b. 1946) JudithResnik, American astronaut (b. 1949) Dick Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939)...
(astronaut) Ronald A. Parise (astronaut) James Polshek (architect) (Akron) JudithResnik (astronaut) (Akron) Ron Sega (astronaut) (Cleveland) Howard Dwight Smith...
appearances by two astronauts who died in the explosion; Francis Scobee and JudithResnik. Challenger itself is featured prominently in the film. Many of the...
Shannon Lucid Ronald McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka JudithResnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard...
1970s, Glenn reportedly supported Space Shuttle Mission Specialist JudithResnik in her career. At 42, Glenn was the oldest member of the astronaut corps...
Kaptur Karen Nussbaum Mary Rose Oakar Catherine Pinkerton Willa Player JudithResnik Helen Hooven Santmyer Marian Trimble Joyce Wollenberg 1985 Lois Anna...
McNair, Richard Mullane, Steven Nagel, George Nelson, Ellison Onizuka, JudithResnik, Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon, Robert Stewart, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Norman...
they finished their training. Four members of this group, Dick Scobee, JudithResnik, Ellison Onizuka, and Ronald McNair, died in the Space Shuttle Challenger...
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