This modern luxury high-rise apartment block stands next door to an apartment building where I lived as a boy, on the site of a former one-storey auto-body repair shop known as Mack’s because the Black man who owned and operated it was called Mack. Unknown to us at the time, he was Carl C McNair, father of “Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986)… an American NASA astronaut and physicist [who] died at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.”
Wow. Doesn’t something like this take you back and make you want to remember every detail you knew about the man? Pretty incredible, Adam.
Yes, although, as a young boy, passing an auto-body repair shop, I must confess to having known little. Years later they put up a street sign honoring his son and it was in the newspaper, which is how I think I learned of it.