Dr. Ronald McNair Park

Eastern Pkwy., Washington Ave., Classon Ave.

Brooklyn, 11225

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

Dr. Ronald E. McNair (1950-1986), a distinguished physicist and astronaut, was born and raised in Lake City, South Carolina. He received a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. After working as a physicist for Hughes Research Laboratories, he was chosen as a candidate for astronaut in 1978 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Apart from his life as an astronaut, McNair possessed a black belt in karate and was an accomplished saxophonist.