Mark@RCR 🌀 on Nostr: “McNair was the age I am now when he perished aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger ...
“McNair was the age I am now when he perished aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger before the eyes of a disbelieving nation. But his life was largely made by a #library — a life equal parts inspiring and improbable against the #cultural constrictions of his time and place; a life of determination that rendered him the second black person to launch into space, a decade and a half after a visionary children’s #book first dared imagine the possibility.” #civildisobedience
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/06/05/rons-big-mission/Published at
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