For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...

When astronaut Bruce McCandless II drifted away from the safety of the Space Shuttle in 1984, it was terrifying. Not just for the astronaut himself, but also for NASA, scientists, and everyone ...

The unbelievable story behind the ‘most terrifying’ image NASA has ever taken of astronaut Bruce McCandless II who did the first-ever untethered spacewalk.

Most of us know Bruce McCandless II by the famous photograph taken by fellow astronaut ... Space and other, less demanding fare like the Buck Rogers comic strips, my father decided he wanted to ...

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless -- who died at the age of ... McCandless's spacewalk marked the first untethered walk in space by a U.S. astronaut. He was also the first person on Earth to speak ...

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person to spacewalk untethered, floating freely from the Challenger space ...

But the moniker of "most terrifying space photo" is generally given to a photo of astronaut Bruce McCandless II ... ship to make an untethered space walk as they and Challenger hurtled along ...

Astronaut Kathy Sullivan during her first space shuttle mission in 1984, when she became the first American woman to walk in space. Former astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan was part of the space ...

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II is suing Dido over the cover art for her 2008 album ‘Safe Trip Home’. The image, above, shows McCandless ‘free flying’ in space, around 320 metres away from ...