NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80. He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was ...

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 ...

"It's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II ...

Bruce McCandless III is a space historian and his dad did the first untethered space walk back in 1984. He and Emily Carney have written a new book for anyone who wants to learn about the American ...