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Elementary School

T_T Okay, who wrote this article? They need to be beaned off the head. There is already an elementary school in Gaithersburg, Maryland named after her. It opened in 1992, current Principal is Dr. Roy Settles.

I SHOULD KNOW. I was in the FIRST kindergarten class as the school, I played on the construction area, I drove past it almost every day of my life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Towson (talk • contribs) 21:08, May 10, 2006

Spoken article

I plan to record a spoken version of the article soon. Can someone please moderate the Nichelle Nichols content dispute? It looks like it was properly sourced to a 2014 NASA archives article, but someone removed it. I don't know the protocol. 0101Abc (talk) 15:43, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nichelle Nichols was hired as part of the publicity campaign for NASA Astronaut Group 8 but Resnik was not recruited by Nichols; this is a misunderstanding. (It was sourced to Space.com, not NASA.) So I removed it. I have Sally Ride up for review at FAC; you might consider that article too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:30, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Second space flight?

"Her second space flight was mission STS-51-L in January 1986 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. She died when it broke up shortly after liftoff."

This seems unsatisfactory; Challenger peaked at about 65 000 feet, which isn't even close to anybody's definition of space. What improvements can be made here? John (talk) 09:16, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See what you think. John (talk) 20:52, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks okay to me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:41, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Died when the craft broke up?

From the lede She died when it broke up shortly after liftoff. This may not be entirely correct as there is some evidence that Resnick survived the Challenger breakup, as discussed later in the article. She may have survived breakup and died when the crew compartment impacted the ocean. I don't think anyone knows definitively when the crew died. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:11, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on if you interpret that as meaning that her death occurred at the specific moment of break up or simply as part of the consequences of that break up. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:25, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that's the problem. Saying "shortly after the craft broke up" is probably better than "when the craft broke up", since we don't know. Here is a reliable source published last year stating explicitly "it is possible that Resnik and other members of the crew survived the initial breakup, contained in the more structurally robust crew cabin of the orbiter, and died on impact with the ocean." ☆ Bri (talk) 18:20, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But "shortly after the craft broke up" could be interpreted to indicate simple chronology, not causation. She didn't just die after the craft broke up, she died because the craft broke up. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 18:42, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Space Robotic Arm is called the Canadarm

Please give credit to the Canadian Space agency who designed the space robotic arm. It is called the Canadarm. 96.52.172.59 (talk) 23:51, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mentioned on Saturday Night Live

Unsure if this counts as WP:OR:

Dr. Resnik was the topic of a comedic bit on Saturday Night Live's Saturday Night News in March 1983, S8 E12:

“

Dr. Judith Resnik, a biological engineer, has been selected to fly in the twelfth Space Shuttle mission in March of next year. Dr. Resnik is the second woman named to the American Space Flight program. The first, of course, is entertainer Bette Midler who went up several years ago.

”

— Brad Hall

The "over-the-shoulder" graphic was Dr. Resnik's individual photo, seen in this array of the 1978 Astronaut Class found at https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/1978-astronaut-class/ . Lent (talk) 00:03, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]