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Black and white portrait of Ronald E. McNair in his NASA uniform displayed next to building 37, which houses the MIT Center for Space Research, in an announcement that it will be named after him to memorialize his death in a space shuttle crash in January 1986. He had received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 1976.

Original caption: "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will name the building housing the MIT Center for Space Research for Dr. Ronald E. McNair, the MIT alumnus who was killed when the space shuttle Challenger crashed last January. Dedication ceremonies are Dec. 5. The 20-year-old building, shown here in an architect's rendering, will be named the Ronald E. McNair Building. Dr. McNair was an MIT. Alumnus. He received the PhD in physics in 1976."