Dr. McNair was assigned as a mission specialist on STS 51-L. Dr. McNair died on January 28, 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, also taking the lives of the spacecraft commander, Mr. F.R. Scobee, the pilot, Commander M.J. Smith (USN), mission specialists, Lieutenant Colonel E.S. Onizuka (USAF), and Dr. J.A. Resnik, and two civilian payload specialists, Mr. G.B. Jarvis and Mrs. S. C. McAuliffe.
according to pay scale the top earnings of self employed neurologists is more than $ 400000 while the newly employed neurologists receive a lesser salary of about $ 62149 the salaries for neurologists vary based on the location and the salaries in various states of usa are as followsediatric neurologist salary a pediatric neurologist is a physician who deals with the disorders of the brain and nervous system in children according to american medical group association amga reports the average expected salary for pediatric neurologists ranges from between $ 197282 $ 219561 per year
When Becker's ordered the 2010 surgical specialty salaries from highest to lowest, neurological surgeons sat at the top of the list, leaving behind even the closely related specialty of neurology. The 2011 average salary of a neurologist with six years of experience was $237,000, according to Profiles, a web-based resource for physician recruitment. A neurosurgeon of similar experience makes $589,500, more than double that of his colleague.