Astronaut Ronald McNair training on the remote manipulator system simulator.
Image: NASA.
Astronaut Ronald McNair training on the remote manipulator system simulator.
Image: NASA.
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Astronaut Ronald McNair tragically died in the STS-51L (Challenger) shuttle explosion. He had completed one other shuttle mission, STS-41B (Challenger), in 1984, on which he served as mission specialist. McNair graduated from North Carolina A&T State College with a degree in physics. |
He later received a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. McNair held a fifth-degree black belt in karate and was an accomplished jazz saxophonist. Ronald McNair was born on October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina, and died January 28, 1986. |