It’s appropriate that a forthcoming book about Judith Resnik is aimed at young people: The Akron astronaut was a major proponent of getting students, especially women, into science.
“I think some of the best years of your lives are when you’re a student and trying to prepare yourselves for what you want to do in the future,” she said during a 1984 speech at the Akron Roundtable.
Less than two years later, she was among the seven crew members killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart after liftoff. “Judith Resnik: Unsung Astronaut” delves into her upbringing and complex personal life as well as her accomplishments in engineering and the space program. She was the second U.S. woman astronaut in space…