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Judith Resnik

1949 - 1986

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Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) 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. Recognized while still a child for her intellectual brilliance, Resnik was accepted at Carnegie Institute of Technology after becoming only the 16th woman in the history of the United States to have attained a perfect score on the SAT exam. She graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon before attaining a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Judith Resnik is the 70th most popular astronaut (up from 80th in 2019), the 3,202nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,299th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Judith Resnik ranks 70 out of 556. Before her are Sunita Williams, Bruce McCandless II, Claude Nicollier, Toyohiro Akiyama, Barry E. Wilmore, and Georgy Beregovoy. After her are Sally Ride, Toktar Aubakirov, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Ken Mattingly, Viktor Gorbatko, and Frank L. Culbertson Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Judith Resnik ranks 187. Before her are Alice Walton, Ronnie Hellström, Anne Schedeen, Dusty Hill, Nando Parrado, and Martin Amis. After her are Aurelio De Laurentiis, Jens Böhrnsen, Keith Carradine, Patrick Hernandez, Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda, and Svetislav Pešić. Among people deceased in 1986, Judith Resnik ranks 94. Before her are Christopher Isherwood, Alexandre Tansman, Ernst Neufert, Mart Stam, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, and Moses Finley. After her are Liu Bocheng, Ding Ling, Hermann Gmeiner, Dick Scobee, Léopold Szondi, and Oscar Zariski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Judith Resnik ranks 3,202 out of 20,380. Before her are Herbert Blumer (1900), Maxwell D. Taylor (1901), Sequoyah (1770), Danny Sullivan (1950), Diane Ladd (1935), and Tom Savini (1946). After her are Michael Kelly (1969), Brandon deWilde (1942), Ann Miller (1923), Chris Wallace (1947), Robert W. McElroy (1954), and Katherine Jackson (1930).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Judith Resnik ranks 45. Before her are Fred Haise (1933), Michael P. Anderson (1959), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Sunita Williams (1965), Bruce McCandless II (1937), and Barry E. Wilmore (1962). After her are Sally Ride (1951), Ken Mattingly (1936), Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949), Susan Helms (1958), Dick Scobee (1939), and Walter Cunningham (1932).

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