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Memorial service for Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair at Trinity Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

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-118.31631124019634.0251910173289Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.Black Astronaut's Eulogy: 'He Reached for the Stars' Portrait of Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair, above, was center of a memorial service at the Trinity Baptist Church in South Los Angeles on Wednesday as several hundred people gathered to pay their respects. Choir members, lower right, examine a model of the space shuttle.
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Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents (subject)Davis, Larry (photographer)
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  1. African American Astronauts
  2. African Americans
  3. Astronauts
  4. California
  5. Disaster
  6. Events
  7. Los Angeles
  8. Memorial Rites & Ceremonies
  9. United States

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