Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, who died last December at the age of 80, was a principal designer and the first test pilot of NASA’s Manned Maneuvering Unit, first flown on shuttle mission STS-41B in ...

To get the Mid-Air Maneuvering module in The First Descendant, you can farm the Void Fragment in the Restricted Zone in the Sterile Land. It has a 1.5% drop chance here, and the Void Fragment requires ...

SAS sees a market for an Autonomous Maneuvering Unit to help with in-space servicing. Credit: SAS Special Aerospace Services (SAS) has been awarded a Space Act Agreement by NASA to develop an ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This maneuvering unit was constructed ...

Astronaut Bruce McCandless tests the balance and control of a test model of an astronaut maneuvering unit at Martin Marietta Corp.'s Denver Division, as seen on the cover of the August 2, 1971 issue ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center was used on three space shuttle missions.

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 ...