This was such an Awesome Photo that I had to post this weeks APOD blog on it!
This photo is located about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle: Challenger. This photo shows Bruce McCandless II floating free in space. The last time this occurred was at the Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984 with Robert Stewart, a NASA astronaut. However, McCandless was the furthest out into space then anyone has ever go ne before.Bruce was guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit that works by shooting jets of nitrogen, also used to deploy and retrieve Satellites. The MMU has a mass of over 140 Kilograms and was replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit. This is truly an extraordinary photo. It really exemplifies how empty and desolate space is to someone that has never been into space before. It adds wounder and excitement to something unexplainable to someone that has never experienced such an amazing situation before.
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