Bruce McCandless II was the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk. While there are genuine photographs of this historic moment, one popular image was digitally edited. In January 2022, an ...

Bruce McCandless II, the former NASA astronaut who was famously photographed making space history, has died at 80.McCandless, who died Thursday, was the first astronaut to float untethered from a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On this day 40 years ago, astronaut Bruce McCandless drifted away from the space shuttle and into history. The photo of his untethered spacewalk became one of the most iconic ...

A video shared on social media in late 2023 authentically shows NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless II during the first untethered, free-flight spacewalk. At the time of this publication, it had received ...

Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly untethered in space and whose journey into the dark void above Earth was preserved in an iconic photograph, died Thursday. He was 80. NASA announced his death ...

Bruce McCandless II is the most famous man you probably don’t recognize despite having seen him thousands of times. That’s him above in one of the most iconic photographs ever taken during the space ...

Wednesday marked the 40th anniversary of a remarkable space photo: a free-floating astronaut sailing above Earth, seemingly alone. The Sun was striking directly onto NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless at ...

On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II performed the first untethered spacewalk. An incredible photograph of the event shows McCandless floating in space, entirely alone, with Earth ...

Captain Bruce McCandless II, U.S.N. (Ret.) of Conifer passed away at the age of eighty on December 21, 2017 in Los Angeles. Born on June 8, 1937 in Boston, McCandless graduated from Woodrow Wilson ...

Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly untethered in space, whose journey into the dark void above Earth was preserved in a famous photograph, died Thursday. He was 80. Bruce McCandless, the first ...