Astronaut Bernard Harris, born June 26, 1956 in Temple, Texas, became the first black astronaut to perform an EVA. His first mission was STS-55, in April 1993 on board the Space Shuttle Columbia where he was a payload specialist. His second flight was STS-63 in February 1995 aboard Discovery, the first mission of the US/Russia Shuttle/Mir program. Harris performed an EVA with Michael Foale, who performed the first EVA for a British astronaut. It was also the first time a Shuttle was piloted by a female, Eileen Collins.
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