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Its In October 2024, an astronaut performed their inaugural untethered spacewalk as demonstrated in an online photograph shared online in October. [WATCH OUR REVIEW OF ‘THIS WONDERFUL NEW SPACEWALK] [RATING].
On Oct 14, 2024, an X account posted a photograph depicting astronaut Scott Kelly performing the inaugural spacewalk without using safety tethers linked to any spacecraft for support.
The X account explained that Bruce McCandless II could be seen floating unconstrained through space with only his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.
McCandless did, indeed, become the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on February 7th 1984 during STS-41B shuttle mission and used an MMU. A photo was also captured that captured this historic feat.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day posted this original image online on Feb 9, 2020 under “Title”. The description read:
Explainer: Have you ever imagined floating freely through space? At around 100 meters from the cargo bay of space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II experienced that dream by floating farther out than any person had done previously. Astronaut McCandless used a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), or Space Control Module Unit, to float freely through space during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. Alongside fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart he became one of the first individuals ever to experience such an untethered space walk. The MMU was an onboard system designed to deploy and retrieve satellites using nitrogen jets fired through its exhaust ports, used to spray nitrogen pellets at spacecraft for deployment/retrieval purposes. Weighing over 140 kilograms on Earth but weightless when in space – eventually replaced by SAFER backpack propulsion unit
Snopes reviewed another similar photograph of McCandless taken in 2022; however, on that occasion the image had been digitally enhanced to emphasize Earth’s snowcapped peaks to make him seem as though he were floating above them.
NASA was commemorating 50 years of spacewalking with several photos depicting its inaugural untethered spacewalk and this photo shows McCandless “involved with conducting his first field test of a nitrogen-propelled backpack device – known today as MMUs.
(NASA) An image depicted NASA astronaut Robert Stewart using both hands to control his movement while using an MMU during extravehicular activity near Challenger space shuttle cabin.
Snopes also conducted its own investigation on an internet video widely shared online that showed McCandless’ 1984 spacewalk, uploaded by NASA on Dec 22, 2017, to YouTube with the following description.
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