Astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first astronaut to fly freely and untethered in space, has passed away

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Winchester, VA – NBC reports that NASA announced that astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first astronaut to fly freely and untethered in space, has passed away at the age of 80. In 1984 he was photographed flying in space, with his spacewalker’s jetpack, traveling over 300 feet from the Challenger space shuttle. Of his experience, McCandless said to the Daily Camera in Boulder, “I was grossly over-trained. I was just anxious to get out there and fly. I felt very comfortable … It got so cold my teeth were chattering and I was shivering, but that was a very minor thing.” McCandless was also the Mission Control capule communicator in Houston during the iconic moonwalks of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969. Rest in peace.


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Written by: Jennifer Snow

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