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  Judith Resnik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an astronaut who died at the age of 36 in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during the launch of the mission STS-51-L.
The Resnik crater, located within the Apollo impact basin on the far side of the Moon, was named in her honor.
Resnik was portrayed by Julie Fulton in the controversial 1990 TV movie Challenger, which was produced against the wishes of the Challenger families.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judith_Resnik   (274 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Judith Resnik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Resnik is a small lunar crater that is located within the interior of the huge Apollo impact basin, on the Moons far side.
Resnik was born on April 5, 1949, in Akron, Ohio.
Resnik was a biomedical engineer and staff fellow in the laboratory of neurophysiology at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1974 to 1978.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Judith-Resnik   (858 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: Judith A. Resnik (Ph.D.) 12/03
JUDITH A. Born April 5, 1949, in Akron, Ohio.
Resnik was a biomedical engineer and staff fellow in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1974 to 1977, where she performed biological research experiments concerning the physiology of visual systems.
Resnik was a mission specialist on STS 51-L which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 11:38:00 EST on January 28, 1986.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios/htmlbios/resnik.html   (556 words)

  
 Judith Resnik : Information and resources about Judith Resnik : School Work Guru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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, Resnick 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.
While working toward her doctorate, Resnik was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health as a biomedical engineer.
www.schoolworkguru.org /encyclopedia/j/ju/judith_resnik.html   (245 words)

  
 Feb. 2002 - Jewish Heroines - 2/3
Resnik's bravery, however, would probably not come to mind if it were not for the tragic explosion of the Challenger in January 1986.
Resnik was born in Cleveland in 1949 and raised in Akron, and went on to earn an engineering degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a doctorate degree from the University of Maryland.
Resnik became an astronaut candidate in 1978 (she was one of six women and 29 men chosen from 8,000 applicants).
www.goletapublishing.com /jstamps/0202-2.htm   (436 words)

  
 Resnik
Judith A. Resnik was born on April 5, 1949 at Akron, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. Marvin Resnik, a respected Akron optometrist, and Sarah Resnik.
Brought up in the Jewish religion, Resnik was educated in public schools before attending Carnegie-Mellon University, where she received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1970, and the University of Maryland, where she took at Ph.D. in the same field in 1977.
Resnik worked in a variety of professional positions with the RCA corporation in the early 1970s and as a staff fellow with the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, between 1974 and 1977.
www.astronautix.com /astros/resnik.htm   (565 words)

  
 Judith Resnik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Judith Resnik 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.
In January 2003 a mentally disturbed student, Franz Strambach, cruised with a stolen 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.stm.
judith-resnik.borgfind.com   (271 words)

  
 Akron Women's History • Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik, Akron's own woman astronaut, died doing what she loved - flying into space.
Resnik was one of the seven astronauts who died aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986.
Born in Akron on April 5, 1949, Resnik was the daughter of Dr. Marvin Resnik, an Akron optometrist, and Sarah Polen Belfer of Bedford Heights, Ohio.
www3.uakron.edu /schlcomm/womenshistory/resnik_j.htm   (345 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: RESNIK, JUDITH ARLENE
Judith Arlene Resnik, scientist, astronaut, and the second American woman to travel in space, was born in Akron, Ohio, on April 5, 1949, the daughter of Marvin and Sarah (Polen) Resnik.
Resnik was employed by the Radio Corporation of America as a design engineer in New Jersey and Virginia in the early 1970s.
After her training Resnik worked on orbiter development for the space administration and also served as a technical commentator for network television coverage of the 1982 flight of the space shuttle Columbia.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/fre55.html   (514 words)

  
 "Newsletter and Collection information from The Museum of American Jewish Military History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1949, Judith Resnik held a doctorate in electrical engineering and served as a design engineer and biomedical engineer with major U.S. organizations.
Judith was a senior systems engineer with Xerox Corporation in 1978 when she was selected as one of six women (among 8,000 applicants) to become an astronaut.
Resnik was among the astronauts who perished in the 1986 Challenger tragedy.
www.nmajmh.org /supplies/womcat60.html   (189 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Plane Hijacked in Germany in Effort to Draw Attention to Challenger Astronaut Judith Resnik
Judith A. Resnik was born April 5, 1949, in Akron, Ohio.
Resnik was among the seven astronauts killed when the shuttle Challenger exploded seconds after take off on Jan. 28, 1986 from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Resnik's brother Charles is listed as a radiologist at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and has helped run an organization that commemorates the Challenger crew.
www.space.com /news/hijack_resnik_030105.html   (754 words)

  
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EXPERIENCE: Upon graduating from Carnegie-Meelon University in 1970, Dr. Resnik was employed by RCA located in Moorestown, New Jersey; and in 1971, she transferred to RCA in Springfield, Virginia.
Resnik was a biomedical engineer and staff fellow in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1974 to 1977, where she performed biomedical research experiments concerning the physiology of visual systems.
Resnik was a mission specialist on STS 41-D which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984.
www.christa.org /resnick.htm   (524 words)

  
 IEEECSS
Description: The IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986 to recognize outstanding contributions to space engineering, within the fields of interest of the IEEE.
The Award is named in honor of IEEE Member Judith Resnik, who was a Mission Specialist on the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger, which exploded on 28 January 1986.
Resnik was a biomedical engineer and staff Fellow with the National Institute of Health when she was selected by NASA in 1978 to join the Space Program.
www.ieeecss.org /awards/resnik.html   (517 words)

  
 Judith Resnik
Resnik was determined to do everything she could possiblv do.
Resnik and crew died at 11:39 when the CHALLENGER exploded seconds after it was launched.
Resnik was carrying a ring for her nephew and a heart-shaped locket for her niece when she died.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Resnik.html   (614 words)

  
 American Flyers - Judith Resnick Scholarship
The Judith Resnik Memorial Scholarship was established in memory of Judith Resnik, the female back-up command pilot astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded January 28, 1986.
Resnik, the second American woman in space, graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.
Judy Resnik was born April 5, 1949, in Akron, Ohio.
www.americanflyers.net /about/resnick.asp   (539 words)

  
 Personality of the Week - Resnick
She was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1949, into a traditional Jewish family, studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University and then earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
After six years of training, Resnik joined the crew of the space shuttle Discovery for a space mission of five days between August 30 to September 5, 1984, becoming the second American woman astronaut and the first Jew to travel in space.
Judith Resnik joined the crew of the space shuttle Challenger and died on January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle exploded during the take-off killing all crewmembers.
www.bh.org.il /Names/POW/Resnick.asp   (200 words)

  
 Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik was an American astronaut who was born on April 5, 1949, in Ohio.
Resnik was the second American woman to go into space.
Resnik was killed in the explosion of Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/astronauts/resnik.html&fr=t   (122 words)

  
 Woman in science - Earth and Space - Judith Resnik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Judith Resnik earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and soon went to work for RCA.
Resnik was always drawn to solving problems and discovering new frontiers.
On August 30, 1984, Judith became the second woman to fly on space on the six-day mission of Discovery.
library.thinkquest.org /20117/resnik.html   (247 words)

  
 Sea and Sky: Judith A. Resnik
Judith A. Resnik was one of three mission specialists on Challenger.
Born on April 5, 1949 at Akron, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. Marvin Resnik, a respected Akron optometrist, and Sarah Resnik.
During this mission she helped to deploy three satellites into orbit; she was also involved in biomedical research during the mission.
www.seasky.org /spacexp/sky5a03.html   (272 words)

  
 Resnik, "Asking About Gender in the Courts," 1996
In "Asking about Gender in Courts," Judith Resnik discusses the issue of gender bias in the courts, and gender bias task forces, the primary method for gathering information about discrimination against women in the justice system.
Resnik places the VAWA within the context of new Congressional interest in federal court studies on gender.
In this article, Resnik tackles such questions as, "What issues dominate gender task force reports?" and "How is the topic of 'gender bias' constructed?" Resnik views the many activities associated with task forces as an occasion to explore relationships among "feminist theory, feminist practice, and one set of legal institutions--the courts."
www.binghamton.edu /womhist/vawa/doc17.htm   (2718 words)

  
 Resnik, "Naturally Without Gender," Dec. 1991
In this article, Resnik explored the role that gender plays in the allocation of work between state and federal courts.
Resnik discusses the extent of this problem in the federal judiciary.
Below, Professor Resnik explores the relationship between women and the federal courts and the role that gender plays in the allocation of work between state and federal courts.
www.binghamton.edu /womhist/vawa/doc2.htm   (11053 words)

  
 Alien-UFOs.com Network Forum - mysterious astronaut Judith Resnik incident
If the world were a fiction, this man was Cassandra foretelling a tragedy that might have been avoided if, for example, NASA had paid closer attention to the possibility that the falling fragment of foam did more damage than they thought.
The pilot told authorities that he had spoken with the dead Judith Resnik.
It could also be an interaction between a universe in which Judy Resnik is still alive and our world.
www.alien-ufos.com /forum/printthread.php?t=7678   (549 words)

  
 NASA - Senator John Glenn Memorial for Judy Resnik
We have come here today not just to mourn Judy Resnik's death, but even more to celebrate her life.
And in my judgment, there is no better way to celebrate her life than to celebrate the cause for which she died.
Judy Resnik, whom we both honor and memorialize here today, was such a person in every sense of those words.
www.nasa.gov /centers/glenn/about/memorial.html   (902 words)

  
 Yale Law School | @YLS | "Invading the Courts"--A Commentary by Prof. Judith Resnik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
By Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at YLS
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor at Yale Law School.
She helped author a letter, signed by more than 700 law professors nationwide, detailing objections to the Nov. 13 order establishing military commissions.
www.law.yale.edu /outside/html/Public_Affairs/185/yls_article.htm   (1510 words)

  
 Judith Resnik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Remarks of Senator John Glenn at the Memorial Service For Judith Resnick (http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/html/memorial.htm)
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www.termsdefined.net /ju/judith-resnik.html   (294 words)

  
 IEEEJudith A. Resnik Award
The IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986 to recognize outstanding contributions to space engineering, within the fields of interest of the IEEE.
This award is presented to an individual or team, with preference given to an individual.
Recipient selection is administered by the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.
www.ieee.org /about/awards/sums/resnik.htm   (286 words)

  
 Astronaut Judith Resnik - Links
Judy Resnik's blue STS 41-D flightsuit was exhibited in memory of her at NASA's CDSCC Visitor Centre (Canberra, Australia)
Judith A. Resnik describing robot arm operations procedures
Judith A. Resnik and crew mates assembled for a portrait in the payload bay of a shuttle training module
www.judith-resnik.info /resnik.htm   (329 words)

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