No Strings Attached
February 7, 1984 - First Tetherless Walk In Space.
Life imitated art, or at least the comics, as NASA took another step towards the Buck Rogers image of mobility in outer space.
Bruce McCandless, a captain of the United States Navy, became the first person to fly freely in space on this day in 1984.
Captain McCandless had designed a rocket-pack that allowed him to fly over 100 yards away from the Challenger space shuttle. The rocket-pack apparatus powered McCandless at speeds as high as 17,000 miles per hour to keep up with the orbiting shuttle. His untethered space-walk lasted an hour and a half before he returned to the spacecraft.
Quote for ToDay:
"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."
- Scott Adams - The Way of the Weasel
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