Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
- STS -55 ( 1993)
- STS -63 (1995)
Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. ( born June 26, 1956 in Temple, Texas, USA ) is a former American astronaut.
Harris in 1978 received a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Houston in 1982 and a doctorate in medicine from Texas Tech University. In 1996 he received a Masters in Biomedicine of the University of Texas Medical Branch. In 1999, he received a Master or Business Administration from the University of Houston.
By 1985, Harris worked as an internist at the Mayo Clinic. He then worked until 1987 at the Ames Research Center of NASA. In 1988, he trained as a flight surgeon at the Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio. Then he came to the Johnson Space Center NASA and worked in medical research and as a flight surgeon.
Astronauts activity
After an unsuccessful bid for the twelfth astronaut group Harris was selected in January 1990 by the NASA group 13 as astronaut candidate.
STS -55
Harris first flight took him as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia into space. 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 not begin until April 26, 1993. When the mission was first carried an IMAX camera. Also on board were with Ulrich Walter and Hans Schlegel two German astronauts.
STS -63
On 3 February 1995 Harris started as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery for the first flight of a shuttle to the space station Mir. During the mission, the orbiter approached on the fourth day of flying the Mir up to eleven meters and held this position for ten minutes. In the further course of the mission, the platform SPARTAN 204 was exposed and re-captured and a four and a half hour spacewalk performed. For the first time the Space Shuttle with the pilot Eileen Collins was controlled by a woman.
According to the NASA
After retiring from NASA in April 1996, Harris started at the company in SPACEHAB Inc..
Private
Bernard Harris is married and has one child.