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Bruce McCandless, II

Bruce McCandless

Born: 8 June 1937, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Nationality: American

Died: 21 December 2017

Group: NASA Group 5 (4 April 1966)

Status: Deceased

 

FAI Flights:
1
3 February 1984
7 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes, 55 seconds
2
24 April 1990
5 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes, 6 seconds

 

EVA's:
1
7 February 1984
5 hours, 55 minutes
2
9 February 1984
6 hours, 17 minutes

Education
  BS  United States Naval Academy, 1958
  MS (Electrical Engineering), Stanford University, 1965
  MBA  University of Houston – Clear Lake, 1987

Bruce McCandless made the first untethered space walk on 7 February, 1984. He used a backpack powered by 24 nitrogen-firing jets and roamed up to 320 feet from the space shuttle while orbiting the Earth at 17,500 mph. Recalling Neil Armstrong's famous small step remark, McCandless said, "It's a heck of a big leap for me."

 


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