Subject: Space flight

An autographed NASA publicity photograph of Judith Resnik, a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger. Resnik was recruited into the astronaut program in January 1978 by actress Nichelle Nichols. Resnik's first space flight was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery from August to September 1984. She was a mission specialist aboard Challenger for STS-51-L. Resnik was the first American Jewish astronaut to go into space and the first Jewish woman in space.