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Astronaut Bruce McCandless performs the first spacewalk without using safety tethers 👨🏻‍🚀

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Daryl Jacobs27 days ago

Looks still. He is doing ~17,500 mph with the ship. Same stack as Challenger. That is how you stay close. The leave-the-bay speed is small — a few hundred feet on nitrogen thrusters. Fog is a teaching overlay only. Vacuum has no wind. If he froze and dropped the 17,500, the shuttle would go without him. First untethered walk. MMU. Feb 7 1984. Courage on the edge.

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...and gets sucked into a black hole.

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