Sunday, January 7, 2024

Starman

In 1984, NASA's Bruce McCandless was the first astronaut to venture untethered into space. McCandless used a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) to navigate from and to the Space Shuttle Challenger for 6 hours and 17 minutes. Far out, man!


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