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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This name tag was a spare for Ronald E. (Ron) McNair, one of the first African Americans selected into the astronaut corps. He flew as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle in 1984 (STS 41-B ...

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 ...

Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair (1950-1986), the second African-American astronaut to travel into space, was a distinguished physicist and astronaut who perished in the space shuttle Challenger disaster in ...