How It All Began For Ronald McNair the Astronaut

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Ronald McNair grew up in Lake City, SC. He grew up to become an astronaut. Tragically, he was on the Challenger mission, which exploded seconds after takeoff on January 28, 1986. This is the actually funny story of how he started his journey, in a time of great racial strife, as told by his brother to StoryCorps. And despite the tragedy, there's a little bit of a happy ending. • Subscribe! • / upworthy • Like us on Facebook: • / upworthy • Follow Us On Twitter: • / upworthy • Story Corps: • Subscribe to StoryCorps: / storycorps • Visit StoryCorps: http://storycorps.org/ • Upworthy is on a mission to tell stories that bring people together — because we’re all part of the same story. • Our goal is to foster a community of people who are focused on spreading ideas within their existing groups of friends on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and wherever else. So if you see something #upworthy, tag it, share it and start a conversation.

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