Ronald McNair The First African American Mission Specialist

“Hanging it over the edge”: Remembering astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair PhD '76 ... “If anything is worth doing, if anything is worth living ... Ronald Erwin McNair was born in Lake City, South Carolina on October 21, 1950. His father, Carl McNair, was an automobile body repairman. His ... Ronald McNair/Challenger Astronaut (Junior World Biographies) [Shaw, Dena] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ronald McNair/Challenger ... Dr. McNair became a nationally recognized expert in laser physics while on the staff of Hughes Research Laboratory and received many honorary degrees, ... Dr. Ronald E. McNair is known for being the second African-American person to reach space, and one of seven crew members killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle ... After obtaining his PhD, Ronald McNair worked as a physicist at the Optical Physics Department at Hugh Research Laboratory in California. In January 1978, NASA ... 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 ... Dr. Ronald E. McNair was a NASA mission specialist who perished in the 1986 Challenger disaster. Dr. McNair held a Ph.D. awarded from MIT in ... Among the courageous astronauts aboard was Mission Specialist Ronald Erwin McNair from Lake City, South Carolina. On this anniversary, McNair's ... Ronald McNair was an American physicist and astronaut who was killed in the Challenger disaster. McNair received a bachelor's degree in ...