Lone Star Flight Museum, 11551 Aerospace Ave., Houston, on April 22 commemorated the 25th anniversary of its Texas Aviation Hall of Fame by inducting four new honorees.
Among those honored were Bruce A. Bohannon, an Alvin native; astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr., who lived in Clear Lake during his time with NASA; Marion P. Jayne; and retired General Mark A. Welsh III.
Bohannon won several races in the 1980s and ’90s in his aircraft that now hangs in the Experimental Aircraft Association Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He built a modified airplane known as the Exxon Flyin’ Tiger, in which Bohannon broke 30 more records through 2005. He went on to own Flyin’ Tiger Flying School in Angleton, Texas.
Harris was born in Temple, Texas, and became an astronaut at Johnson Space Center in 1990. On Feb. 9, 1995, he became the first African American to perform a spacewalk. He logged more than 438 miles and traveled over 7.2 million miles in space across two missions. He has a demonstrated passion for teaching children STEM skills.
