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35 years ago Bruce McCandless took the first ever untethered trip into space

Posted on 2/10/19 at 10:52 pm
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 10:52 pm
He was also part of the team that designed the propulsion jet pack.

Had something gone wrong? Goodbye Bruce McCandless.



This post was edited on 2/10/19 at 10:54 pm
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 10:53 pm to
Man, that would take some damn balls of steel!
Posted by TROLA
BATON ROUGE
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 10:54 pm to
Kudos to that man
Posted by RummelTiger
Texas
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 10:55 pm to
Tom Hanks was an astronaut?
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 10:56 pm to
No stars? Fake picture is fake.
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 10:58 pm to
Man, frick that.
Posted by willymeaux
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 11:03 pm to
RIP Commander McCandless
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 11:04 pm to
Dem sideburns tho
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 11:04 pm to
Nope nope nope
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 11:17 pm to
All he’d have to do is puncture a small hole in the glove of his spacesuit and use the escaping oxygen to propel him back to the ship.
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
25539 posts
Posted on 2/11/19 at 12:42 am to
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Tom Hanks was an astronaut?


Of course he was. You ever see Apollo 13?
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
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Posted on 2/11/19 at 1:21 am to
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All he’d have to do is puncture a small hole in the glove of his spacesuit and use the escaping oxygen to propel him back to the ship.

Ok, Macgyver.
Posted by EarlyCuyler3
Appalachia
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Posted on 2/11/19 at 5:17 am to
It was something they did in Interstellar.
Posted by Nicky Parrish
Member since Apr 2016
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Posted on 2/11/19 at 5:23 am to
I remember that. Seems like NASA did that only once.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 2/11/19 at 5:23 am to
Zero chance i would have agreed to that.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
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Posted on 2/11/19 at 5:43 am to
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McCandless took the first ever untethered trip into space


He was the first that returned. I bet there are a couple of cosmonauts that either re-entered the atmosphere without a vehicle, or are still orbiting.
Posted by Bmath
LA
Member since Aug 2010
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Posted on 2/11/19 at 5:58 am to
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It was something they did in Interstellar.


No no no

It was Mark Watney in The Martian.
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
51916 posts
Posted on 2/11/19 at 6:02 am to
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All he’d have to do is puncture a small hole in the glove of his spacesuit and use the escaping oxygen to propel him back to the ship


What, you think he is some kind of botanist?
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 2/11/19 at 6:56 am to
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All he’d have to do is puncture a small hole in the glove of his spacesuit and use the escaping oxygen to propel him back to the ship.

Posted by elprez00
Hammond, LA
Member since Sep 2011
29436 posts
Posted on 2/11/19 at 7:00 am to
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quote: All he’d have to do is puncture a small hole in the glove of his spacesuit and use the escaping oxygen to propel him back to the ship What, you think he is some kind of botanist?

Read the book. Watney was an engineer in the book who’s secondary MOS was botanist.

He also makes fun of the entire “Iron Man” incident.
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