A South Carolina native is being remembered this week as the country reflects on a tragedy that happened 39 years ago.

Today marks 39th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which took lives of seven crew members, including Ronald ...

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

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

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 ...

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) – A homeless man admitted why he pushed a woman into a moving subway train in New York ...

It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Dr. McNair came from a low-income background but went on ...

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 ...

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.

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