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Orbit - Floating While Black: Bernard Harris, Ronald McNair, and the Spacewalk That Changed Everything

Orbit - Floating While Black: Bernard Harris, Ronald McNair, and the Spacewalk That Changed Everything

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Host Cosmo Ray explores the legacies of Ronald McNair and Bernard Harris—two pioneering Black astronauts who shattered barriers in America's space program. McNair, a physicist from Jim Crow South Carolina, perished aboard Challenger in 1986. Harris became the first African American to spacewalk in 1995, championing STEM education for underrepresented youth.

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