Celebrating the Life and Contributions of Ronald McNair, the Visionary Astronaut

A museum that pays tribute to the life of Dr. McNair, a Lake City-born astronaut and physicist who died in the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion. About Ronald E. McNair ... Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair was born in Lake City, South Carolina, on October 21, 1950. In 1967, he graduated valedictorian from Carver ... Ronald McNair, an American physicist and NASA astronaut who broke barriers both on Earth and in the vast expanse of space. Ronald McNair High School 9550 Ronald E. McNair Way Stockton, CA 95210 Tel (209) 953-9245 Fax: (209) 953-3213 Office Hours: Mon-Fri “Hanging it over the edge”: Remembering astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair PhD '76 ... “If anything is worth doing, if anything is worth living ... Ronald McNair/Challenger Astronaut (Junior World Biographies) [Shaw, Dena] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ronald McNair/Challenger ... Ronald McNair was an American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program. He was a crewmember on STS-51L. In 2063, the assignment patch for this mission was ... A child prodigy, McNair was an accomplished musician, physicist, and fifth-degree black-belt karate champion. Ronald McNair could read and write before entering school and was considered a mechanical genius, which earned him the nickname of "Gizmo." The impetus for his ... 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 ...