Honoring the Legacy of Ronald McNair A Visionary Leader in STEM Education

In 1978, McNair was selected from a pool of 10,000 applicants to join the NASA astronaut program and made his first trip to space as a mission ... Ronald E. McNair (1950-1986) ... Ronald Erwin McNair was a physicist and one of the first African American astronauts to go into space. He was ... Page Content ... Dr. Ronald E. McNair was born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. The NASA astronaut died January 28, 1986. He is survived by his ... McNair achieved early success in the segregated public school system as valedictorian of his high school class. After earning a B.S. in physics from North ... Dr. Ronald E. McNair Monument. This text is part of Parks' Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. This monument, which combines a ... PS 005 Dr. Ronald McNair, District 820 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233 718-218-2444 718-218-2445 McNair had been fascinated by space even while growing up in Lake City, South Carolina. A precocious child who could read and write at the age of three, he was ... He earned a black belt in karate and become a karate champion. He was a stellar athlete as well as a highly accomplished jazz saxophonist. He even planned to ... TIL I learned that Ronald McNair, the second African-American in space and one of the seven victims of the Challenger disaster, was a Bahá'í. Nine-year-old Ronald McNair was obsessed with space. So much so that one day, without his parents knowledge, he walked about a mile to his local ...