Dr. McNair was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. After his death in the Challenger Space Shuttle accident on January 28, 1986, members of Congress provided funding for the ...

Dr. McNair embodied the idea that race, income and generation status should not stand in the way of education. His academic and career success, dimmed only by his untimely death, lives on through his ...

McNair's parents later disclosed heat stroke caused their son's death. In a July 12 press release announcing the resumption of normal workouts after classifying them voluntary for the weeks ...