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 ...

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

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In December of last year, Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of the Shenzhou 19 mission, spent a record-breaking nine hours on a space walk outside of the Tiangong space station ...

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"The last FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program were clear: Crewmembers who travel into space must have 'demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to ...