Letter: Threats from outer space

Sir: Referring to the Challenger disaster, Ann Treneman writes, "Six men and one woman died on their way into space, but the joke was only on the one." (Space, women's final frontier", 4 July)

There were two women and five men on the Challenger; or

doesn't Judith A Resnick count, because she was a professional

astronaut?

PAUL BRETTLE

Birmingham