AKRON, Ohio — In Akron, Judy Resnik's legacy of strength, smarts and determination is not forgotten. Resnik was a trailblazer. An engineer, a pilot, and only the second female American astronaut to ...

It was the children Tuesday who helped teacher Barbara Roduner deal with the loss of her childhood friend, astronaut Judith Resnik. "They were so great," Mrs. Roduner said of her second-grade pupils ...

Judith Resnick, of Indianapolis, passed away on December 29, 2023, after gallantly battling congestive heart failure. Judy was born on May 6, 1939. She was preceded in death by her father and mother, ...

It was 1977, and moon landings had become commonplace. American enthusiasm, and public funding, were in danger of drying up. NASA needed to make space exciting again and longed for the days when the ...

I don't know exactly how the space shuttle Challenger disaster found that niche, but it's true. If you ask someone born in the 1960s or '70s what they were doing when they heard about the Challenger, ...

Later this week, the likenesses of Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Jim Lovell and Judith Resnik will join those of Wilbur and Orville Wright at the Ohio Statehouse. At an event on Wednesday night at the ...

From left to right are Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Sally K. Ride, Anna L. Fisher and Shannon W. Lucid in the crew systems laboratory at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Credit: ...

(CNN) — As Sally Ride prepared to make history as the first American woman in space, it should have been a moment when science was celebrated. But instead, a reporter asked a question that stunned ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid has a recipe for a perfect page-turning beach read: compelling and complex characters, a strong sense of place, ticking timers, dual timelines and chapter-ending cliff-hangers that ...

Editor's note: This essay was originally published on January 28, 2006, on the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Twenty years ago this week, people born after the ...