Why Bruce McCandless II Became the First Astronaut to experience Untethered Floating in space
After the Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov conducted the first tethered spacewalk in March 1965, space agencies realized that astronauts can leave their space capsules and float freely in space. However, no one ever thought of conducting an untethered spacewalk because of the dangers associated with it. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II took the bold step and …
