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Backpacking
Title Backpacking
Full Description Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II ventured further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut ever has. This space first was made possible by the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU, a nitrogen jet propelled backpack. After a series of test maneuvers inside and above Challenger's payload bay, McCandless went "free-flying" to a distance of 320 feet away from the Orbiter. The MMU is controled by joy sticks positioned at the end of the arm rests. Moving the joy sticks left or right or by pulling them fires nitrogen jet thrusters propelling McCandless in any direction he chooses. A still camera is mounted on the upper right portion of the MMU. This stunning view shows McCandless with the MMU out there amongst the black and blue of Earth and space.
Date 02/11/1984
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
EVAtion
Title EVAtion
Full Description Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, is seen further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut has ever been. This space first was made possible by the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU, a nitrogen jet propelled backpack. After a series of test maneuvers inside and above Challenger's payload bay, McCandless went "free-flying" to a distance of 320 feet away from the Orbiter. This stunning orbital panorama view shows McCandless out there amongst the black and blue of Earth and space.
Date 02/12/1984
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
To Fly Free in Space
Title To Fly Free in Space
Explanation At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit [ http://www.astronautix.com/craft/shulemmu.htm ] (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above [ http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001087.html ], was floating free in space. McCandless [ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mccandless-b.html ] and fellow NASA astronaut [ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/index.html ] Robert Stewart [ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/stewart-rl.html ] were the first to experience such an "untether [ http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html ]ed space walk [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990801.html ]" during Space Shuttle [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990411.html ] mission 41-B [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-B ] in 1984 [ http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/ ]. The MMU [ http://galacticvoyager.com/pat/mmu/ ] works by shooting jets of nitrogen [ http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/7.html ] and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070325.html ], but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit. The MMU was replaced with the SAFER [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011002.html ] backpack propulsion unit.
To Fly Free in Space
Title To Fly Free in Space
Explanation At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit [ http://www.astronautix.com/craft/shulemmu.htm ] (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above [ http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001087.html ], was floating free in space. McCandless [ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mccandless-b.html ] and fellow NASA astronaut [ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/index.html ] Robert Stewart [ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/stewart-rl.html ] were the first to experience such an "untether [ http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html ]ed space walk [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990801.html ]" during Space Shuttle [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990411.html ] mission 41-B [ http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/chron/sts41-b.htm ] in 1984 [ http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/ ]. The MMU [ http://galacticvoyager.com/pat/mmu/ ] works by shooting jets of nitrogen [ http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/7.html ] and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050102.html ], but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit. The MMU was replaced with the SAFER [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011002.html ] backpack propulsion unit.
View of Astronaut Bruc McCan …
Title View of Astronaut Bruc McCandless during EVA
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, tests a mobile foot restraint (MFR) attached to the remote manipulator system (RMS). The aft portion of the Challenger, to which the RMS is connected, is seen in the lower left corner. The protective cradle that the WESTAR VI satellite used in the left corner of the frame. Below McCandless can be seen the cloudy surface of the earth (27037,27040), McCandless "rides" the RMS arm during a lengthy EVA. The 41-B mission specialist has his eyes on the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01A) in the middle of the Challenger's cargo bay (27038), McCandless appears to be walking on cargo, but is realy being flown over it by the combination of MFR and RMS. His helmet visor reflects parts of the payload bay that can't be seen in the larger portion of the photo. Behind him can be seen both the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods (27039).
Date 02.12.1984
View of Astronaut Bruce McCa …
Title View of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II during EVA
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, tests a mobile foot restraint (MFR) attached to the end effector of the remote manipulator system (RMS). The Challenger was flying with its aft end aimed toward the Earth. This photo shows where the MFR connects to the end effector of the RMS arm as the astronaut hangs above the open payload bay.
Date 02.11.1984
STS-31 MS McCandless with LI …
Title STS-31 MS McCandless with LINHOF camera on OV-103's forward flight deck
Description STS-31 Mission Specialist (MS) Bruce McCandless II looks away from the bracket-mounted LINHOF Aero Technika camera on the forward flight deck of Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, to pose for this picture. McCandless is positioned in the commanders station and is recording Earth observations outside forward flight deck window W2. His hair freefloats away from his head in the microgravity environment and he sports a five o'clock shadow.
Date Taken 1990-04-29
Apollo 14 crewmen near site …
Title Apollo 14 crewmen near site of volcanic eruption on Hawaii
Description Prime crewmen and backup crewmen of the Apollo 14 mission look over an area near the site of a volcanic eruption in Aloi Alae, Hawaii. Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. (leaning with left hand on ground) and Edgar D. Mitchell (behind Shepard, wearing dark glasses) are the prime crewmen scheduled to walk on the moon. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan (almost obscured at extreme left) and Joe H. Engle (partially visible, on Cernan's right) are back-up crew commander and lunar module pilot, respectively, for the mission. Others in the photograph are Pat Crosland (in hard hat), a geologist and a park ranger in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Michael C McEwen (facing Mitchell) of the Geology Branch, Lunar and Earth Sciences Division, Manned Spacecraft Center, and Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, who made the trip to serve as a spacecraft communicator during simulations of extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.
Date Taken 1970-04-10
Flight controllers discuss p …
Title Flight controllers discuss procedures for repair of coolant system in Skylab
Description The procedures for repairing the coolant system aboard the Airlock Module of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit are discussed by flight controllers in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at JSC. Skylab 4 Flight Director Neil Hutchinson is on the right. Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart is wearing the sports shirt. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, a Skylab 4 CAPCOM, is seated next to Schweickart. Items of equipment in the foreground are similar to components of a special coolant re-servicing kit which was taken to Earth orbit by the Skylab 4 crewmen. The kit consists of a tank containing 42 pounds of COOLANOL, a series of saddle valves, bolts and spacers, and leak-check hoses. The re-supply tank is a modified command module reaction control subsystem (RCS) fuel tank.
Date Taken 1973-11-19
Astronaut Bruce McCandless s …
Title Astronaut Bruce McCandless shows mockup of occulting disc for Skylab exp.
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, left, shows off a mockup of the occulting disc for the T025 Coronagraph Contamination Measurement Engineering and Technology Experiment to be used by the crewmen of the third manned Skylab mission, now into their eighth day in Earth orbit. On the right is Flight Director Neil B. Hutchinson. The men are in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) at JSC.
Date Taken 1973-11-23
View of Astronaut Bruc McCan …
Title View of Astronaut Bruc McCandless during EVA
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, tests a mobile foot restraint (MFR) attached to the remote manipulator system (RMS). The aft portion of the Challenger, to which the RMS is connected, is seen in the lower left corner. The protective cradle that the WESTAR VI satellite used in the left corner of the frame. Below McCandless can be seen the cloudy surface of the earth (27037,27040), McCandless "rides" the RMS arm during a lengthy EVA. The 41-B mission specialist has his eyes on the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01A) in the middle of the Challenger's cargo bay (27038), McCandless appears to be walking on cargo, but is realy being flown over it by the combination of MFR and RMS. His helmet visor reflects parts of the payload bay that can't be seen in the larger portion of the photo. Behind him can be seen both the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods (27039).
Date Taken 1984-02-12
View of Astronaut Bruc McCan …
Title View of Astronaut Bruc McCandless during EVA
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, tests a mobile foot restraint (MFR) attached to the remote manipulator system (RMS). The aft portion of the Challenger, to which the RMS is connected, is seen in the lower left corner. The protective cradle that the WESTAR VI satellite used in the left corner of the frame. Below McCandless can be seen the cloudy surface of the earth (27037,27040), McCandless "rides" the RMS arm during a lengthy EVA. The 41-B mission specialist has his eyes on the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01A) in the middle of the Challenger's cargo bay (27038), McCandless appears to be walking on cargo, but is realy being flown over it by the combination of MFR and RMS. His helmet visor reflects parts of the payload bay that can't be seen in the larger portion of the photo. Behind him can be seen both the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods (27039).
Date Taken 1984-02-12
View of Astronaut Bruc McCan …
Title View of Astronaut Bruc McCandless during EVA
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, tests a mobile foot restraint (MFR) attached to the remote manipulator system (RMS). The aft portion of the Challenger, to which the RMS is connected, is seen in the lower left corner. The protective cradle that the WESTAR VI satellite used in the left corner of the frame. Below McCandless can be seen the cloudy surface of the earth (27037,27040), McCandless "rides" the RMS arm during a lengthy EVA. The 41-B mission specialist has his eyes on the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01A) in the middle of the Challenger's cargo bay (27038), McCandless appears to be walking on cargo, but is realy being flown over it by the combination of MFR and RMS. His helmet visor reflects parts of the payload bay that can't be seen in the larger portion of the photo. Behind him can be seen both the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods (27039).
Date Taken 1984-02-12
Views of the extravehicular …
Title Views of the extravehicular activity during STS 41-B
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist, participates in a extravehicular activity (EVA), a few meters away from the cabin of the shuttle Challenger. He is using a nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled manned maneuvering unit (MMU). He is performing this EVA without being tethered to the shuttle. Below him can be seen a cloud view of the earth (27017), McCandless approaches his maximum distance from the Challenger. He is framed by the blackness of space and below him a cloudy earth (27018), McCandless is centered in a background of clouds and earth in this view of his EVA. As in the others, he is floating without tethers (27019).
Date Taken 1984-02-11
Views of the extravehicular …
Title Views of the extravehicular activity during STS 41-B
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist, participates in a extravehicular activity (EVA), a few meters away from the cabin of the shuttle Challenger. He is using a nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled manned maneuvering unit (MMU). He is performing this EVA without being tethered to the shuttle. Below him can be seen a cloud view of the earth (27017), McCandless approaches his maximum distance from the Challenger. He is framed by the blackness of space and below him a cloudy earth (27018), McCandless is centered in a background of clouds and earth in this view of his EVA. As in the others, he is floating without tethers (27019).
Date Taken 1984-02-11
View of Astronaut Bruce McCa …
Title View of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II during EVA
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, tests a mobile foot restraint (MFR) attached to the end effector of the remote manipulator system (RMS). The Challenger was flying with its aft end aimed toward the Earth. This photo shows where the MFR connects to the end effector of the RMS arm as the astronaut hangs above the open payload bay.
Date Taken 1984-02-11
Views of the extravehicular …
Title Views of the extravehicular activity during STS 41-B
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist, participates in a extravehicular activity (EVA), a few meters away from the cabin of the shuttle Challenger. He is using a nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled manned maneuvering unit (MMU). He is performing this EVA without being tethered to the shuttle. Below him can be seen a cloud view of the earth (27017), McCandless approaches his maximum distance from the Challenger. He is framed by the blackness of space and below him a cloudy earth (27018), McCandless is centered in a background of clouds and earth in this view of his EVA. As in the others, he is floating without tethers (27019).
Date Taken 1984-02-11
View of Astronaut Bruc McCan …
Title View of Astronaut Bruc McCandless during EVA
Description Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, tests a mobile foot restraint (MFR) attached to the remote manipulator system (RMS). The aft portion of the Challenger, to which the RMS is connected, is seen in the lower left corner. The protective cradle that the WESTAR VI satellite used in the left corner of the frame. Below McCandless can be seen the cloudy surface of the earth (27037,27040), McCandless "rides" the RMS arm during a lengthy EVA. The 41-B mission specialist has his eyes on the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01A) in the middle of the Challenger's cargo bay (27038), McCandless appears to be walking on cargo, but is realy being flown over it by the combination of MFR and RMS. His helmet visor reflects parts of the payload bay that can't be seen in the larger portion of the photo. Behind him can be seen both the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods (27039).
Date Taken 1984-02-12
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