His first space shuttle mission launched successfully from Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1984. Dr. Ronald E. McNair was the second African American to fly in space. Two years later he was ...

Space Shuttle Challenger's trage which has affected all of America and South Carolina. And on that flight, Michael Smith, born in South Carolina and Ronald E. McNair, 35 years o a brilliant ...

This act of defiance in pursuit of education would set the course for his relatively short but full life, which culminated in his career as a Space Shuttle mission specialist. Ronald McNair was ...

Initiated by Congress and established by the U.S. Department of Education in 1989, the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Program is one of the federal TRiO programs. It is named in memory of ...

Bluford, Ronald E. McNair spent time in space on the STS ... 1985 when he became the first Black astronaut to pilot a space shuttle. The seven-day Spacelab-3 mission aboard the STS-51B saw two ...

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.

The McNair Program is named in honor of the late Dr. Ronald E. McNair, one of seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. Despite social and economic barriers, Dr. McNair earned many ...