When astronaut Bruce McCandless II drifted away from the safety of the Space Shuttle in 1984, it was terrifying. Not just for ...

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 II became the first person to spacewalk untethered, floating freely from the Challenger space shuttle.

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 ...

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

Captain Bruce McCandless ... to join the nation’s astronaut corps. He is perhaps best remembered as the subject of a now iconic NASA photograph, flying alongside the space shuttle in the Manned ...

News Brief: Retired astronaut Bruce McCandless II, the first astronaut ... He’s also raring to go back into space,… Read More India’s space agency says it put its winged space shuttle ...