NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80
Source: Associated Press
NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Dec 22, 2017, 4:40 PM ET
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80.
McCandless died Thursday in California, NASA's Johnson Space Center announced Friday. No cause of death was given.
He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in the cosmic blackness above a blue Earth. He traveled more than 300 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger during the spacewalk.
McCandless said he wasn't nervous about the historic spacewalk.
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Rest in peace...
I had this poster for years.