Ronald McNair The Physicist Who Soared to the Stars

Ronald McNair was an American astronaut and physicist known for being one of the first African American astronauts and for his tragic death in the Space... This program is a graduate school preparation project for first generation/income eligible college students and individuals underrepresented in graduate ... Dr. Ronald E. McNair was a member of that crew. He was a decorated NASA astronaut, scientist, and talented musician. South Carolina native Ronald McNair was the second African-American to go into space, and was part of the STS-51L crew that died when the Space Shuttle ... Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program: The McNair Scholars Program is a federal TRIO program funded at 151 institutions across the United ... He was only 35 years old. Dr. McNair's legacy lives on through the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, established by Congress to inspire ... Dr. Ronald E. McNair was the second African American to fly in space. Two years later he was selected to serve as mission specialist aboard the ill-fated U.S. ... Ronald Erwin McNair was born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina to Carl and Pearl McNair. In 1971, he received a B.S. in physics and graduated magna ... Ronald E. McNair, a mission specialist with NASA, died with seven other astronauts in the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986, ... Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair, Physicist and Astronaut, dared to dream. As an African-American growing up in a poor community in the South, he encountered ...