Business Career
In May 1989, McBride retired from NASA and the Navy, in order to pursue a business career. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Flying Eagle Corporation in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and President of the Constructors’ Labor Council of West Virginia (heavy/highway construction contractors).
In 1996, he unsuccessfully vied for the Republican nomination for Governor of West Virginia, losing to Cecil H. Underwood.
In the subsequent years, he left West Virginia to pursue business opportunities in Arizona.
As of 2008, he is retired and living near Cocoa, Florida. In recent years, he has been active in the "Lunch with an Astronaut" program at Kennedy Space Center.
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