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Judith Resnik was an American electrical, software and biomedical engineer, and pilot and astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in January 1986. Resnik was the fourth woman the second American woman to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit. She earned a PhD in electrical engineering and worked for RCA as an engineer on Navy missile and radar projects and Xerox as a senior systems engineer. She published research on special-purpose integrated circuitry and qualified as a pilot. At age 28, she was selected by NASA as a mission specialist in the first astronaut group to include women. While training she developed software and operating procedures for NASA missions. Her first space flight was the STS-41-D mission in 1984, the maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Discovery, during which her duties included operating the orbiter's robotic arm. Her second space flight was the STS-51-L mission aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. She died when it broke up shortly after liftoff. (Full article...)
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Hi Hawkeye7 and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:03, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
- I have added a bit more information, tweaked the working, and bypassed the redirects. But only five characters longer. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:40, 15 July 2022 (UTC)