One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from any earthly anchor when he stepped out of the space shuttle Challenger and ...

For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...

But the moniker of "most terrifying space photo" is generally given to a photo of astronaut Bruce McCandless II, taken from the space shuttle Challenger on February 7, 1984. On that day ...

Just 15 years later, astronaut Bruce McCandless II performed the first-ever untethered spacewalk and it paved the way for some of the 'most terrifying' images NASA has ever taken. Back on Feb 7, 1984, ...

Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. Bruce McCandless II, astronaut, engineer and inventor, instantly became an icon of human ingenuity on February 7, 1984, when he was ...

Bruce McCandless' copy of "A History of Sea Power" that survived the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. Most people would never expect to see such artifacts from decorated warriors of different ...

The Boss just announced that "Tracks II: The Lost Albums," featuring seven previously unheard Springsteen records, will be ...