Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.

Judith Resnik became the first Jewish American and second Jew (Soviet astronaut Boris Volynov was the first) to go into space when she flew on the maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1984.

Judith Resnik’s body of work is devoted to such far-reaching questions of social justice that it defies neat summation. As a litigator she has argued for women’s rights in front of the Supreme Court.

For example, the end of WWII, the assassination of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., Princess Diana's death, and the Challenger disaster ... about one member of the Challenger's crew -- ...