Judith Resnik
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 38 years ago |
Date of birth | April 5,1949 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Akron |
Ohio | |
United States | |
Date of died | January 28,1986 |
Died | Cape Canaveral |
Florida | |
United States | |
Space missions | STS-51-L, STS-41-D |
STS-51-L | |
STS-41-D | |
Spouse | Michael Oldak |
Buried | Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States |
Job | Astronaut |
Engineer | |
Scientist | |
Place of burial | Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States |
Education | University of Maryland |
Parents | Marvin Resnik |
Siblings | Charles Resnik |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 468740 |
Judith Resnik Life story
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.