NASA astronaut McCandless, 1st to fly freely in space, dies
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died aged 80. McCandless was photographed in 1984, when he travelled over 300 feet from Challenger spacecraft using a jetpack. Describing the spacewalk McCandless once wrote, "I'd been told of the quiet vacuum you experience in space, but with three radio links...it wasn't that peaceful".