Bruce McCandless, 1st astronaut to float untethered in space, dies at 80

Bruce McCandless, 1st astronaut to float untethered in space, dies at 80

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, who was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in the cosmic blackness above a blue Earth, has died.

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