Astronaut Bio: Ronald E. MCNAIR (PH. D.)NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED)PERSONAL DATA: Born October 2. Lake City. South Carolina. Died January 2. 8, 1. He is survived by his wife Cheryl, and. He was a 5th degree black belt Karate instructor and a performing.
He also enjoyed running, boxing, football, playing cards, and cooking. EDUCATION: Graduated from Carver High School, Lake. City, South Carolina, in 1. Physics. from North Carolina A& T State University in 1.
Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1. Laws from North Carolina A& T State University in 1. Science from Morris College in 1. University of South Carolina in 1. ORGANIZATIONS: Member of the American Association for.
MCNAIR (PH.D.) NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) PERSONAL DATA: Born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. Died January 28, 1986. McNair (1950-1986) — A Brief Biography. Ronald Erwin McNair was born October 21, 1950, in the small community of Lake City, South Carolina. Ronald McNair East Tennessee. To learn more about how the McNair Program can help you get to Graduate School please click on the.
Advancement of Science, the American Optical Society, the American Physical. Society (APS), the APS Committee on Minorities in Physics, the North Carolina. School of Science and Mathematics Board of Trustees, the MIT Corporation Visiting. Committee, Omega Psi Phi, and a visiting lecturer in Physics at Texas Southern University. AWARDS: Posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. SPECIAL HONORS: Graduated magna cum laude from North. Carolina A& T (1.
Presidential Scholar (1. Ford Foundation. Fellow (1. National Fellowship Fund Fellow (1. NATO Fellow. (1. 97. Omega Psi Phi Scholar of the Year Award (1. Los Angeles. Public School Systems Service Commendation (1.
Distinguished Alumni Award. National Society of Black Professional Engineers Distinguished National. Scientist Award (1. Friend of Freedom Award (1. Whos Who Among Black.
Americans (1. 98. AAU Karate Gold Medal (1. Regional Blackbelt Karate. Championships, and numerous proclamations and achievement awards.
EXPERIENCE: While at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Mc. Nair performed some of the earliest development of chemical HF/DF and. CO lasers. His later experiments and theoretical analysis on the. CO2 laser radiation with molecular gases provided. In 1. 97. 5, he studied laser physics with many authorities in. Ecole Dete Theorique de Physique, Les Houches, France.
He published. several papers in the areas of lasers and molecular spectroscopy and gave many. United States and abroad. Following graduation from MIT in 1. Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
His assignments included. The crew included spacecraft. Mr. Vance Brand, the pilot, Commander Robert L. Gibson, and fellow. Captain Bruce Mc.
Candless II, and Lt. This mission marked the first flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit. Canadian arm (operated by Mc.
Nair) to position EVA crewman. Challengers payload bay. Included were the German SPAS- 0. Satellite. acoustic levitation and chemical separation experiments, the Cinema 3. Getaway Specials, and numerous mid- deck experiments - -. Dr. Mc. Nair assumed primary responsibility.
Challenger culminated. Kennedy Space Center on February 1. Mc. Nair was assigned as a mission specialist on STS 5. L. Mc. Nair died on January 2.
Space Shuttle Challenger. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, also taking the.
Mr. Scobee, the pilot, Commander M. J. Onizuka (USAF), and. Dr. Resnik, and two civilian payload specialists, Mr. Mc. Auliffe. DECEMBER 2.
McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, also referred to as the McNair Scholars Program, is a United States Department of Education initiative. Ronald Erwin McNair first came to MIT on a junior-year exchange scholarship from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.