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Happy New Year!!!!!

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I know that I'm at least five days late from writing this, but Happy New Year! As I mentioned in a post that I posted sometime in July or August 2017, I wished that everyone would come together to make Judy Resnik a hero to every girl! Sure Sally Ride may have been the first American woman in Space, but I just feel that Judy deserves as much recognition as Sally because Judy didn't get to live to be the age Sally was when she passed. She died way too young. However, she managed to be a strong leader for her women astronauts in her class (so did Sally) and learned how to use the robotic arm in space on the STS-41-D mission in 1984. The mission was originally scheduled for June 24, 1984 but due to an invisible fire, it was put on hiatus. The mission started on August 30 - September 5, 1984. Judy logged at least 145 hours in space. While on the Space Shuttle Discovery, she had her hair caught in the IMAX Camera. Mike Coats had the work with the camera for a very long time to get i