Opera in Scotland Isles incident). Non-Scottish based operas by Davies include Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, Kommilitonen!, The Doctor of Myddfai, Cinderella and Resurrection. Davies died in 2016. Another major composer, with a questionable Scottish background is Judith Weir. In 2014 she was appointed Master of the Queen's Music, following on from Davies and becoming the first woman to hold this honorary role. Weir is of English birth, but Scottish heritage, and has worked both north and south of the border. She has used Scottish material in her opera, "The Vanishing Bridegroom". Commissioned by the Glasgow District Council, the opera was premiered by
Judith Resnik Challenger Disaster: “She was an amazing person... I pushed her to excel, and I live with that memory every day." On joining NASA's astronaut program, Resnik trained intensely and with great determination, focusing particularly on her physical fitness, and she was deeply disappointed when she didn't become the first American woman in space, with Sally Ride taking the first flight. During the training, it had been assumed that either Judith or Sally would become the first woman in space, as of the six women on the astronaut program, only Judith and Sally were receiving "the sorts of technical assignments which