Bernard A. Harris
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | Jan 17, 1990 ( 13th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 2 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
April 26, 1993 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
February 11, 1995 |
| Time in space: | 18d 6h 8min |
| EVA inserts: | 1 |
| EVA total duration: | 4h 39min |
| retired on | April 15, 1996 |
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Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. (born June 26, 1956 in Temple , Texas , USA ) is a retired American astronaut .
Harris received a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Houston in 1978 and a doctorate in medicine from Texas Tech University in 1982 . In 1996 he received a Masters in Biomedicine from the University of Texas Medical Branch. In 1999 he received a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Houston.
Until 1985 Harris worked as an internist at the Mayo Clinic . He then worked at NASA's Ames Research Center until 1987 . In 1988 he trained as an aviation surgeon at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio . He then came to NASA's Johnson Space Center , where he worked in medical research and as an aviation surgeon.
Astronaut activity
After an unsuccessful application for the twelfth group of astronauts, Harris was selected in January 1990 by NASA with the thirteenth group as an astronaut candidate.
STS-55
Harris' first flight took him into space as a mission specialist on the Columbia space shuttle . The flight is known in Germany as the second German Spacelab mission "D-2". The ten-day flight had to be postponed several times due to various technical problems and could only begin on April 26, 1993. An IMAX camera was carried for the first time on the mission . On board were two German astronauts, Ulrich Walter and Hans Schlegel .
STS-63
On February 3, 1995, Harris started as a mission specialist with the space shuttle Discovery for the first flight of a shuttle to the Mir space station . During the mission, on the fourth day of flight, the orbiter approached Mir within eleven meters and held this position for ten minutes. In the further course of the mission, the SPARTAN 204 platform was deployed and recaptured and a four and a half hour space exit was carried out. For the first time, the space shuttle with pilot Eileen Collins was steered by a woman.
According to NASA
After leaving NASA in April 1996, Harris started at SPACEHAB Inc.
Private
Bernard Harris is married with one child.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Bernard A. Harris at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Bernard A. Harris (English; PDF)
- Biography of Bernard A. Harris in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Harris, Bernard A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harris, Bernard Anthony; Harris, Bernard Anthony Junior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Temple (Texas) , Texas, USA |