Posted on 05/14/2023 2:18:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What would it be like to fly free in space? At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was living the dream -- floating farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured, was floating free in space. During Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984, McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space walk". The MMU worked by shooting jets of nitrogen and was used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit. The MMU was later replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit.
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Ahhhh...hello..HELLO?...anybody...
Flying free in Outer Space?
That’s something I hope that I never find out about first hand. I am an Earthwalker and lovin’ it!
There is a first time for everything.
Some day, the first Earthling will be lost in space. He or she will either die immediately and the body careen out of orbit, or broadcast while floating away until oxygen runs out.
Every feeling person on Earth will grieve.
Until then, bravo for this person.
That kind of One Way Experimentation is usually what animals are for. I mean wild animals, mammals, such as apes, monkeys
and pigs.
I wouldn’t even send a Pig to Mars. That kind of trip will always be extremely dangerous and disorientating for any animal with a respiratory, muscular and nervous system. We can only be sedated for so long to calm us during the traveling, then at some point, we just don’t wake up.
This would be soooo cool…..
I get what you mean about the value of an adventurous spirit.
We don’t want it to be the most exciting event in our home will be known as ‘Voyage To The Bottom Of The Stairs!!”
We can only be sedated for so long to calm us during the traveling, then at some point, we just don’t wake up.
That’s life...however we do wake up it’s just that
we don’t remember being awake before.
“We do wake up, it’s just that we don’t remember being awake before.”
Interesting.
That sounds like a script from one of my favorite Parnormal TV dramas of the early ‘60’s. T’was called
“One Step Beyond”. I like this show more than Twilight Zone, because it often dealt with telepathy phenomena.
The Soviet Union lost 1 cosmonaut in 1962 and 3 in 1971 in spacecraft accidents. All were lost involving accidents upon re-entry. And those are the ones we know of. There are rumors of others.
Crazy bastards.
You might think that some natural protection instincts would take over.
Reminds me of those high wire guys without a safety net.
Lucky bastard... I’d love to be that far from 99.999% of people.
Fall? Float out in space? Become a satellite?
I don't s'pose a "healthy fart" would getya headed in the right direction from in the suit an'it ain't like ya can open the window for fresh air (insult to injury)..
Strange picture.. d;^)
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong!..........
He be a satellite.
I suspect there was some sort of very fine tether not visible.
NASA is nothing if not a true believer in redundant safety measures.
Then a asteroid smacked him....
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