celebrate her life
"go at throttle up" they said
her spirit lives on
haitech haiku™
©2003 judith meskill
...Upon graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, Judith A. Resnik (Ph.D.) was employed by RCA located in Moorestown, New Jersey; and in 1971, she transferred to RCA in Springfield, Virginia...
Dr. 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...
Immediately preceding her selection by NASA in 1978, she was a senior systems engineer in product development with Xerox Corporation at El Segundo, California...
Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978, she completed a 1-year training and evaluation period in August 1979...
Dr. Resnik first flew as a mission specialist on STS 41-D which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984...This was the maiden flight of the orbiter Discovery...
Dr. 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... The STS 51-L crew died on January 28, 1986 when Challenger exploded after launch...