Judith Weir her appointment as the Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Weir's musical language is fairly conservative, with a "knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious." Her first stage work, "The Black Spider", was a one-act opera which
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