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 ...

On Feb. 7, 1984, during the Space Shuttle Challenger's STS-41B mission, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II made the first, untethered, free flight spacewalk in the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

On February 7, 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless ventured out into space and away from shuttle Challenger using only a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack Adam Higginbotham The first space ...

Forty years ago, astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human satellite of Earth when he completed the first untethered spacewalk in history. Photos of his free-floating mission have since ...

Dressed in a spacesuit and wearing a large backpack, the astronaut floats gently upwards, light as a snowflake against the dark sky. As he floats, he gradually increases the centimetres, the metres, ...

A silent video of the walk was shared to YouTube by NASA Video on Dec. 22, 2017, with a description that read: On Feb. 7, 1984, during the Space Shuttle Challenger’s STS-41B mission, NASA Astronaut ...

Bruce McCandless III will start the day at the Cosmosphere, delivering a talk at Coffee at the Cosmo, from 9 to 10 a.m. At 6 p.m., he heads over to Crow & Co. Bookstore on Main Street to engage ...

The photo is real and was taken by NASA crew during the first ever untethered space walk, carried out by astronaut Bruce McCandless II in 1984. A post on Facebook claims that a picture of an astronaut ...

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats completely untethered, away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.

On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless became the first human to float free from any earthly anchor when he stepped out of the space shuttle Challenger and flew away from the ship.