In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II made history—and defied human instinct—by stepping into the vast void of space ...

Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly untethered in space and whose journey into the dark void above Earth was preserved in an iconic photograph, died Thursday. He was 80. NASA announced his death ...

On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Maneuvering Unit, or ...

Bruce McCandless III is a space historian and his dad did the first untethered space walk back in 1984. He and Emily Carney have written a new book for anyone who wants to learn about the American ...