Astronauts Harris and Foale ready to egress airlock for EVA Astronauts Bernard A. Harris Jr., STS-63 payload commander, (top right) and C. Michael Foale, mission specialist, are ready to egress airlock for an extravehicular activity on February 9, 1995. Others onboard the space shuttle Discovery were astronauts James D. Wetherbee, mission commander; Eileen M. Collins, pilot; mission specialists Janice E. Voss, and cosmonaut Vladimir G. Titov. On this spacewalk Harris became the first African-American to walk in space and Foale became the first British citizen to walk in space. Date Feb 9 1995

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