Bruce McCandless, II
Born: 8 June 1937, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Died: 21 December 2017
Group: NASA Group 5 (4 April 1966)
Status: Deceased
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Education
BS United States Naval Academy, 1958
MS (Electrical Engineering), Stanford University, 1965
MBA University of Houston – Clear Lake, 1987
Bruce McCandless made the first untethered space walk on 7 February, 1984. He used a backpack powered by 24 nitrogen-firing jets and roamed up to 320 feet from the space shuttle while orbiting the Earth at 17,500 mph. Recalling Neil Armstrong's famous small step remark, McCandless said, "It's a heck of a big leap for me."
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