On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless became the first person to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) during the STS-41B mission. On October 11, 1984 ...
In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II made history—and defied human instinct—by stepping into the vast void of space ...
In February 1984, Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless ... a trio of astronauts conducted the first-ever spacewalk involving more than two participants. STS-49 mission specialists Pierre Thuot ...
In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...
"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — One of NASA's two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station ...
This was the first NASA spacewalk since November 2023, as the previous two spacewalks scheduled during the Crew-8 expedition were cancelled due to spacesuit issues. The Russian cosmonauts onboard ...