Judith Resnik (d. 1986)

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Biography

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.

Timeline

The story of Judith Resnik, told in moments.

1978 Event

Selected as one of the first six female astronaut candidates in NASA history. Trained as a mission specialist. Worked on the orbiter arm and experimental software.

What was it like being one of the first six female astronaut candidates? Did the selection feel historic or just hard-earned? Were you ever treated differently for being a woman at NASA?

1984 Event

Flew on the maiden voyage of Discovery, STS-41-D. Deployed three communications satellites. Became the second American woman in space, four months after Sally Ride.

How did it feel to deploy satellites from orbit? Was being the second American woman in space meaningful to you? Did Discovery's maiden voyage feel like the future?

1986 Death

Killed when Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch. Age 36. A failed O-ring seal on the right solid rocket booster. All seven crew members died. It was 28 degrees that morning in Florida.

Did anyone sense something was wrong that cold morning? What would you want the world to learn from Challenger? Was 36 too soon for everything you had left to do?

Artifacts (15)

The Federal Procedural System: A Rule and Statutory Source Book

The casebook provides detailed information on procedure in the federal court system. part of the University Casebook Series; , it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a...

1991

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Adjudication and Its Alternatives: An Introduction to Procedure

The casebook provides detailed information on procedure. It includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials...

2003

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Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy

An original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment’s purposes and prisoners’ rights. Impermissible Punishments explores the...

2025

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the unhappiest woman in all of Christendom

neral. Yet, after King Henry’s refusal to legitimize Mary or determine her place in the succession, Mary described herself in 1542 as "the unhappiest woman in all of Christendom". Mary was courted by...

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Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-states and Democratic Courtrooms

A remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice -- Civic space, the public square, and good governance -- Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state -- Of eyes and...

2011

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Judging Consent

1986

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Failing Faith: Adjudicatory Procedure in Decline

1987

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Due Process: A Public Dimension

1988

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Procedure

1988

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Procedure 99

1999

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Judicial Independence and Article III: Too Little and Too Much

1999

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Trial as Error, Jurisdiction as Injury: Transforming the Meaning of Article III

2000

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Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender

2009

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History, Jurisdiction, and the Federal Courts: Changing Contexts, Selective Memories and Limited Imagination

1995

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Adjudication and its alternatives: an introduction to procedure : suggestions for and reflections on teaching

2004

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