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McNair on Board Date of birth: October 21, 1950 Date of death: January 28, 1986 Profession: Physicist, Astronaut Space agency: NASA Missions: STS-51-L, STS-41-B Nationality: American source: freebase "Ronald Erwin McNair was born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina to Carl and Pearl McNair. He attended North Carolina A&T State University where he graduated magna cum Laude with a B.S. degree in physics in 1971. McNair then enrolled in the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1976 at the age of 25." Ronald E. McNair Biography |
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Annual Celebration of Ronald McNair by N.C.
A&T to be Held Jan. 28 Tonya Dixon EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Jan. 17, 2020) –North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will celebrate the life and legacy of alumnus Ronald E. McNair, Ph.D., at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the Alumni Foundation Event Center on campus.  The
keynote speaker for the 33rd annual celebration is Reginald “Reggie”
Goodwin, ’84, ’19. He had the experience of meeting McNair as an
undergraduate in the N.C. A&T Air Force ROTC and the Department of
Physics. Emulating McNair, Goodwin earned a degree in Engineering
Physics and participated in the same A&T Karate Dojo. Goodwin has an extensive background in high volume manufacturing with over 15 years in the semiconductor industry. Among many other areas, he’s worked in product, device, process and operations engineering and most recently as an operations manager supervising customer engineers and service technicians in chemical vapor deposition, ion implant, metal deposition, rapid thermal processing, epitaxy and reactive ion etch. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from A&T and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the university.  In
1978, McNair, was selected as a mission specialist astronaut for the
NASA Space Shuttle Program. On Jan. 28, 1986, he was aboard the
Space Shuttle Challenger for his second mission when it experienced
fatal malfunctions upon takeoff. McNair died along with six other
crew members.In homage to McNair, students from the STEM Early College at N.C. A&T participated in a rocket launch contest. The students learned the basic principles of physics to build and launch the rockets. The winners will be acknowledged at the celebration. The program will include greetings and presentations from students, faculty, staff, administrators, city officials and community leaders. Required registration for the event is available at https://ncat.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6LLQHXGYNP84Q3b. |
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