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Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 - January 28,
1986) was an astronaut who died in the Space
Shuttle Challenger explosion during the launch of
the mission STS-51-L.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Resnik, who was Jewish,
received a B.S. in electrical engineering from
Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, and a
doctorate in that field in 1977 at the University
of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland. 
After graduation from Carnegie-Mellon, she was
employed at RCA where she was a design engineer,
and later worked with various NASA projects
contracted to the company.

While working toward her doctorate, Resnik was
affiliated with the National Institutes of Health
as a biomedical engineer.  Later, she was a
systems engineer with Xerox Corporation.

Resnik was selected for the astronaut program in
January 1978, and had served as a mission
specialist on the maiden voyage of Space Shuttle
Discovery, August-September 1984.  She was
likewise a mission specialist aboard the
Challenger.

The Resnik (crater)|Resnik crater, located within
the Apollo (crater)|Apollo impact basin on the Far
side (Moon)|far side of the Moon, was named in her
honor.

==Bizarre incident==
In January 2003 a mentally disturbed student,
Franz Strambach, cruised with a stolen
Glider|motor glider between the high-rise builings
of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany. He
threatened to crash into the European Central Bank
building and declared this was to remind the
public of the fate of Judy Resnik, his idol
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2629523.st
m, who he believed received less attention because
she was Jewish.  He was arrested after two hours
of flight. His website is still online.
http://www.judith-resnik.info/resnik.htm

==External links==
*
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/resnik.html
Official NASA Bio
* http://www.challenger.org/about/resnik.cfm
Challenger Center bio
*
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/html/memorial.htm
Remarks of Senator John Glenn at the Memorial
Service For Judith Resnik