The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame held its annual induction ceremony on Saturday (May 31), but one of this year's two honorees could not attend for a reason unique to all past enshrinements.
Bernard Harris, the first Black astronaut to perform a spacewalk, took to the stage, received his induction medal and unveiled the plaque that will represent him in the hall of fame at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. His fellow 2025 inductee, Peggy Whitson, would have done the same, but was absent due to needing to be in quarantine ahead of her upcoming fifth launch into space.
