Judith Resnick

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Judith Arlene Resnik 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.
Resnik was recognized for her intellectual brilliance early in life, achieving a perfect SAT score and attending Carnegie Mellon University.
She worked on Navy missile and radar projects for RCA and later contributed to biomedical engineering research at the National Institutes of Health.
Selected by NASA in 1978 as part of Astronaut Group 8, she was the first group to include women.
Her first space mission was STS-41-D in 1984, where she operated the Space Shuttle's robotic arm.
Resnik died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, during the STS-51-L mission.
Posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, she has numerous landmarks and awards named in her honor.

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