Bruce McCandless II Summary

Bruce Mccandless 1937- American astronaut who was the first individual to spacewalk untethered. McCandless graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and Stanford University, specializing in electrical eng... Read more

In 1984, American astronaut Bruce McCandless II (born 1937) became the first person to leave a spacecraft in space without a tether. He flew out of the payload bay of the space shuttle Challenger on F... Read more