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    Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and...
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    Bruce McCandless I (August 12, 1911 – January 24, 1968) was an officer of United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor during World War II for his...
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  • McCandless and Bruce McCandless I McCandless Lunar Lander, named for Bruce McCandless II McCandlish, a less common form of the name McCanles Gang (sometimes...
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    the father of Bruce McCandless, also a naval officer, and the grandfather of NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II. Commodore McCandless was later promoted...
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    Shuttle flight; pilot Robert L. Gibson; and mission specialists Bruce McCandless II, Ronald E. McNair, and Robert L. Stewart. Challenger lifted off from Kennedy...
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    for a way to command HST to unreel the solar array, Mission Specialists McCandless and Sullivan began preparing for a contingency spacewalk in the event...
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    The McCanles Gang (later changed to McCandless) was an alleged outlaw gang active in the early 1860s that was accused of train robbery, bank robbery, cattle...
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  • [citation needed] The McCandless lander is named in honor of the late astronaut and former Lockheed Martin employee Bruce McCandless II, who in 1984 performed...
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    The crew members were to be John W. Young, Charles F. Bolden Jr., Bruce McCandless II, Steven A. Hawley, and Kathryn D. Sullivan. All of the crew members...
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  • Medal of Honor recipient Bruce McCandless II (1937–2017), astronaut who made the first untethered spacewalk Byron McCandless (1881–1967), commodore in...
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    Apollo Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II" (Press release). NASA. NASA (May 1990). "Astronaut Bio: Bruce McCandless II". Archived from the original on February...
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  • propose a lander called McCandless Lunar Lander, named after the late astronaut and former Lockheed Martin employee Bruce McCandless II, who in 1984 performed...
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    first tested on February 7 during mission STS-41-B by astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart. Two months later, during mission STS-41-C...
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    (less than 130 centimetres or 4 feet 3 inches). On 23 November 2022, John McFall was selected to be the first ESA parastronaut. With the rise of space...
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    space station. The first untethered spacewalk was made by American Bruce McCandless II on February 7, 1984, during the Space Shuttle Challenger mission...
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    Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using Manned Maneuvering Unit outside the United States Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984...
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    features a photograph of astronaut Bruce McCandless II during a spacewalk, as part of space shuttle mission STS-41-B; McCandless sued Dido, Sony Music Entertainment...
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    crew. For Apollo 11, the CAPCOMs were: Charles Duke, Ronald Evans, Bruce McCandless II, James Lovell, William Anders, Ken Mattingly, Fred Haise, Don L....
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    and mission success." CAPCOMs were Duke, Engle, Jack Lousma, and Bruce McCandless II. The command module was given the call sign "Charlie Brown" and the...
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    the numbering resulted in the mission emblems reading "Skylab I", "Skylab II", and "Skylab 3" respectively. Kerwin became the first medical doctor in space...
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    Gemini 8, and Skylab 4. Robert L. Crippen Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr Bruce McCandless II F. Story Musgrave Russell L. Schweickart William E. Thornton Richard...
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    who were not qualified pilots. However, he and Group 5 colleague Bruce McCandless II (the salutatorian of his United States Naval Academy class and the...
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  • and former NASA astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle flights Bruce McCandless II (M.S.), NASA astronaut who completed the first untethered spacewalk...
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    Jarre worked with several Houston-based astronauts, including Bruce McCandless II and Ronald McNair, an accomplished musician who was to have played the saxophone...
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    Robert L. Gibson, pilot, and 3 Mission Specialists, Captain Bruce McCandless II, Dr. Ronald McNair, and Lt. Col. Robert L. Stewart. The flight accomplished...
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    and kept them updated; for Apollo 14, they were Philip K. Chapman, Bruce McCandless II, William R. Pogue and C. Gordon Fullerton. CAPCOMs, the individuals...
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    included astronaut Bruce McCandless II (who graduated second) and Senator John McCain; previous National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane was a contemporary...
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    an EVA of any type. Orbital flight: about 100 meters (or 330 feet), Bruce McCandless, STS-41-B, February 7, 1984. With the exception of six Manned Maneuvering...
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    Ivanov Bertalan Farkas Phạm Tuân Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez 1980s 61 Bruce McCandless II, first untethered spacewalk. Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa Dumitru Prunariu...
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  • (test flight) STS-1 1984 February 7 First untethered spacewalk, Bruce McCandless II STS-41-B 1985 June 11 First aerostat balloon in the atmosphere of...
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