Storycorps: Eyes on the Stars

• Animation
• Documentary

• 3 Mins
• 2012
• en

• star0

On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board was physicist Ronald E. McNair, the second African American to enter space. But first, he was a kid with big dreams in Lake City, South Carolina.