On Feb. 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Maneuvering Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a regular EMU spacesuit and included gas thrusters that allowed astronauts to venture much farther away from the space shuttle. McCandless was able to venture 320 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger. The MMU was used during three space shuttle missions in 1984, and astronauts
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On February 7, 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II performed the first untethered spacewalk during STS-41B, using the Manned Maneuvering Unit to fly freely with no physical connection to the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was the moment humans proved they could move independently in orbit. Follow @spaceeves #SpaceHistory #Astronauts #Spacewalk #NASA | SpaceEve
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On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. Discover more space history 👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/A5JKDK McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Maneuvering Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a regular EMU spacesuit and included gas thrusters that allowed astronauts to venture much farther away from the space shuttle. McCandless was able to venture 320 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger. The
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