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 in ...

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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 ...

"It's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was ...

When astronaut Bruce McCandless II drifted away from the safety of the Space Shuttle in 1984, it was terrifying. Not just for the astronaut himself, but also for NASA, scientists, and everyone ...

When it comes to Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II is a straight O.G. Selected by NASA in 1966, a mere eight years after the agency was founded, he got right down to business as the CAPCOM — the ...

A historic image showing astronaut Bruce McCandless II performing the first untethered spacewalk in history on February 23, 1984, during mission STS-41-B. Floating freely in space, propelled solely by ...

Imaginez la scène : un homme flotte dans le vide spatial, à près de cent mètres de la navette qui l’a transporté jusque-là, sans le moindre fil, sans la moindre attache le reliant à quoi que ce soit.