Bruce McCandless II - Wikipedia
网页Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; [1] June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Bruce McCandless | Space Shuttle Challenger, NASA, Astronaut
网页Bruce McCandless was an American naval aviator and astronaut, the first person to conduct an untethered free flight in space. McCandless was the son of an admiral and the grandson of a commodore. He received a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1958.
Remembering Bruce McCandless II - National Air and Space Museum
网页2018年1月10日 · Bruce McCandless II (1937-2017) is immortalized in this iconic photograph of an astronaut flying solo high above Earth. He was the first human being to do a spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft.
Bruce McCandless, first astronaut to float untethered in space, …
网页2017年12月23日 · Former astronaut Bruce McCandless II, famously captured in a 1984 photo documenting the first untethered flight in space, has died, NASA said. He was 80.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II Floats Free in Space - YouTube
网页On Feb. 7, 1984, during the Space Shuttle Challenger’s STS-41B mission, NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless II makes the first, untethered, free flight spacewalk in the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II Dies at 80 - NASA
网页2023年7月26日 · Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist on the STS-41B and STS-31 missions, died Dec. 21, 2017, at the age of 80. McCandless is perhaps best remembered as the subject of a famous NASA photograph flying alongside the space shuttle in the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) – the first astronaut to fly …
Bruce McCandless II: Eyes in the Sky - National Air and Space Museum
网页2024年7月16日 · Floating free against the velvety blackness of space was Bruce McCandless II. For the first time ever, a human being was able to perform a spacewalk while completely untethered thanks to the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), a jetpack-like device McCandless helped develop for over a decade.
The Iconic Photos from STS-41B: Documenting the First Untethered ... - NASA
网页2024年2月2日 · Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS-41B mission specialist, reaches his maximum distance from space shuttle Challenger before returning to the spacecraft using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
Bruce McCandless, Astronaut Who Made First Tetherless …
网页2017年12月22日 · Bruce McCandless II, who also served as Neil Armstrong's contact in Mission Control when the Apollo 11 moonwalker took "one small step" onto the lunar surface in 1969, died on...
NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80
网页2017年12月23日 · HOUSTON (AP) — NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80. He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker’s jetpack, alone …