A Connection to Austin: Former Medical Center Dr inducted into U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame - Austin Daily Herald

A Connection to Austin: Former Medical Center Dr inducted into U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame - Austin Daily Herald

By Jed Nelson On May 31, the Kennedy Space Center held the 2025 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction ceremony. Bernard Harris, a former Internal Medicine doctor at the Austin Medical Center, was one of two former NASA astronauts inducted. Though Harris’s roots are planted deep in Texas, he spent three years in the mid 1980s as a resident in Austin practicing medicine. Born in Temple, Texas in 1956, Harris went on to achieve things most of us co…