— NASA astronaut Judy Resnik, who died in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, has been remembered far and wide, from the "Resnik" crater on the moon to a mural including her portrait in Ohio's statehouse.

Now, a Minor League Baseball team is adding to her honors with a bobblehead for the 200th anniversary of her hometown.

"Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime event as we mark Akron, Ohio's Bicentennial!" announced the RubberDucks on its website. "The first 1,000 fans will receive an exclusive Judy Resnik Akron Bicentennial Bobblehead — talk about a collector's item!"

The giveaway is set for the Akron RubberDucks baseball game against the Erie SeaWolves on Saturday (July 5). The gates at Canal Park open at 5:30 p.m. EDT.

The limited edition bobblehead depicts Resnik wearing a powder-blue flight suit like the type she wore when she became the second American and first Jewish woman to fly into space on space shuttle Discovery's maiden mission STS-41D in 1984. It was also the style she wore to launch aboard Challenger two years later, which ended in tragedy 73 seconds into the STS-51L flight.

The statuette's suit omits either mission's crew patch, but does include Resnik's name tag, NASA's "meatball" insignia and an American flag on her right shoulder. She is holding a white with red and blue stripes launch-entry helmet under her right arm and is mounted atop a baseball base-shaped white and black stand that displays the Akron bicentennial logo and Resnik's name.

Resnik is the only astronaut to be born in Akron, although Ohio has produced the fourth largest number of people to fly into space. Resnik's bobblehead is the second in a series of three celebrating Akron's bicentennial, which also includes the city's founder, Gen. Simon Perkins, and Rita Dove, a past U.S. poet laureate.

Although this is believed to be the first bobblehead modeled after Resnik, she is not the first astronaut to be honored in such a form. The Lancaster JetHawks, a former Minor League Baseball team in southern California, gave out bobbleheads in the likenesses of nearly 10 astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin, Fred Haise and Jerry Ross, from 2004 through 2015. The Biloxi Shuckers in Mississippi also made a Haise bobblehead in 2020, as did the Infinity Science Center a year later.

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, also issued a set of three bobblehead figures styled after Wally Funk, Audrey Powers and Laura Shepard Churchley, the first three women to fly into space on its New Shepard rocket.