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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2001;286:291-292.

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When Bernard A. Harris, Jr, MD, was a child living in the Navajo nation in northern Arizona where his mother taught school, he would climb to a plateau, watch the sun go down, and wonder about the night sky.

Astronaut Bernard A. Harris, Jr, MD, mission specialist, works with a sample at the Heater Facility, part of the Werkestofflabor material sciences laboratory in the Spacelab D-2 Science Module aboard the space shuttle Columbia. (Photo credit: NASA)

"I tell young people the reason I'm here today as a physician and as an astronaut is because I had this one crazy little dream," said Harris, speaking at the National Rural Health Association annual meeting in May. "While looking at those stars, I would imagine myself in my very own spaceship cruising the solar system, leaving the galaxy and going into the universe."

His dream came true on April 26, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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