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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...