In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person to fly freely and untethered in space using NASA’s Manned Maneuvering Unit. The nitrogen-powered backpack allowed astronauts to move ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On this day 40 years ago, astronaut Bruce McCandless drifted away from the space shuttle and into history. The photo of his untethered spacewalk became one of the most iconic ...

On 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center was used on three space shuttle missions.

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, who died last December at the age of 80, was a principal designer and the first test pilot of NASA’s Manned Maneuvering Unit, first flown on shuttle mission STS-41B in ...

Heart-stopping photos of the first untethered spacewalk mark the 40th anniversary of the daring feat. Bruce McCandless II was the first man to take an nerve-wracking romp through space without any ...

This Feb. 7, 1984 photo made available by NASA shows astronaut Bruce McCandless II, participating in a spacewalk a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. (NASA ...

Astronaut Bruce Mc Candless with the MMU (Manned Maneuvering Unit) practises clinging to a mouthpiece similar to those of the "Solar Maximum Satellite, SMS" that he will have to retrieve in the vacuum ...

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