Kirk Whalum was stunned to receive a call from Cheryl McNair, the widow of astronaut Ron McNair who was killed in the ...

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 ...

Dr. Ron McNair, astronaut, South Carolinian. What does this mean to the people of Lake City, his hometown where he grew up? Lake City, the largest town in Lower Florence County where his mother ...

The astronaut spent eight days aboard the Soviet ... Another fellow of the 1978 class which selected Guion S. Bluford, Ronald E. McNair spent time in space on the STS-41B mission in February ...

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 ...

Astronaut Memorial Ceremony took place Sunday to honor the 17 NASA crew members lost in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia ...

Students in Florence School District 3 (FSD3), also known as Lake City schools, are spending this week enjoying a camp that teaches them about aviation. FSD3 in collaboration with the Class of '82 ...

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