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. Challenger space shuttle. He was killed ...

It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Dr. McNair came from a low-income background but went on ...

NASA In this photo taken on Feb. 8, 1984, NASA astronaut Ronald E. McNair plays his saxophone while off-duty during the ...

January 28 is the anniversary of the Challenger explosion. One of the astronauts aboard was Dr. Ronald McNair ... African American to go to space in 1984. Dr. McNair was named a distinguished ...

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 ...

Ronald Erwin McNair, born on October 21 ... Tragically, in 1986, he died on his second space mission in the U.S. Challenger space shuttle disaster. His life, cut short by the Challenger explosion, led ...

Ronald McNair succeeded despite poverty ... Ron spent six years in astronaut training before his first mission on the Space Shuttle Challenger. In the meantime, he and Cheryl had two children ...

The Challenger disaster, a tragic day in space exploration history ... Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.

Nothing has been decided about the school named for Ronald McNair, an astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion — a fact Sue Hann, assistant superintendent of facilities ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off ... Onizuka, Electrical Engineer Judith A. Resnik, Ronald E. McNair, and Payload Specialist Gregory B. Jarvis.