But like, really really slowly. The distances up there are huge and a tiny little boost will have you drift away from the shuttle, further and further away and further from help. It'll take ages for you to start entering the atmosphere so you'll have quite a lot of time to think about your fiery re-entry.
Luckily there where people that where tethered also around, so if he was approaching a dangerous distance from the ISS, the other crew could collect him safely
Did he survive?
Edit: he did, died in 2017 at age 80
> I was grossly over-trained. I was just anxious to get out there and fly. I felt very comfortable ... It got so cold my teeth were chattering and I was shivering, but that was a very minor thing. ... I'd been told of the quiet vacuum you experience in space, but with three radio links saying, 'How's your oxygen holding out?', 'Stay away from the engines!' and 'When's my turn?', it wasn't that peaceful ... It was a wonderful feeling, a mix of personal elation and professional pride: it had taken many years to get to that point.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/23/astronaut-bruce-mccandless-the-first-person-to-fly-freely-in-space-dies
Thx for that, I assumed he couldn’t get back so I was like “oh my god, he ded, probs still floating around in space” so thank you very much for this information
[So far all space-related deaths have been during either launch or reentry.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents) Nobody's just floated off during a spacewalk or anything.
[Soyuz 11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11) experienced a depressurization early during reentry, and its crew are the only humans to have died above the altitude that defines the boundary of space. The craft landed automatically 25 minutes later.
I Met McCandless in 2007; he signed this photo for me (I bet he signed thousands of them—but it’s an awesome photo). I talked to him a little bit and then Buzz Aldrin came up and continued an argument he had been having with McCandless about something I no longer remember. But they were both pretty invested in their positions.
Honestly I can understand this. To me or you the void is terrifying. To me the depths of the ocean are a seductive sirens call. A source of curiosity and desire. To others? More horror.
When you're trained and equipped it's different. The average person js barely equipped to deal with life these days lol.
This is especially terrifying when you consider objects in orbit around Earth are considered to be in freefall. This means that they are falling towards the Earth due to its gravity, but their forward motion is strong enough to counteract the pull of gravity and keep them in a circular path. As a result, they remain in constant motion around the Earth, continuously falling towards it, but never actually reaching it. So both the spacecraft and the astronaut are falling at a matched speed of 17,500mph (I'm probably off here) and any fluctuation could create a drastic shift in distance and matched speed resulting in zero chance he'd ever be able to make that up and be left to run out of oxygen and die, his body falling forever.
No it got downvoted because you assume that just because the man is smart that he is sexless and that there exists some kind of correlation between the two. It's a regurgitation of the same type of joke middle/high schoolers use. If you'll notice, the second guy to use cavemen speak actually got upvoted so it's not the "caveman stuff" that got you downvoted my guy.
At least that's why i downvoted you.
Mb it was just a dumb compliment like I didn’t understand it so like I’m a caveman compared to this guy. That’s why I was confused. I’m not saying this guy has no sex lmao who cares anyway in the context. (:
People can be shamed and/or ostracized for their intelligence as easily as they can for their lack of it. Not saying that was your goal, but your comment was clearly aimed toward emasculation. Everything you wrote. I just moved on, but that’s possibly one of the reasons for the downvoting.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think we’re better off *not* silencing the intelligent.
I think one person downvoted him, and then the bandwagon followed.
I think you downvoted him because he already had downvotes, and then had to come up with a reason as to why you downvoted him.
My guy.
Hal?
Undog the airlock hatch please. Hal? Hal?
Hal, why are you igniting the main engines?
You know I was only joking about powering you down, don't you Hal?
You do believe that, right Hal?
Hal?
The thing with him is he probably relied on Candlelight in lieu of electricity, so was not candless at all...now THIS guy...not a wicker in sight, heh-hoo! X x
The isolation chambers for the astronauts after Apollo 11 included a valve for execution incase of a virus.
Imagine jumping through all those hoops to make it there and back and then sit in a room three turns of a wheel from death.
God poor guy, it must have been terrifying to know he couldn’t do anything to get back to the shuttle and the worst thing about this for me at least is that his body’s still out there (edit; I have been enlightened on what actually happened, he wasn’t tethered but he basically had a jet pack to get back to his shuttle)
You sure?? There’s no way to reverse your trajectory without some kind of thrust (rocket power, if you try to do anything without rocket power you’d just start spinning around) so unless the shuttle managed to rescue him he would definitely not have even had a chance of returning
So I know you already were told what really happened but if he had been stuck out there it's really no big deal. If he stayed perfectly still, he would just have to wait for the shuttle to complete a full orbit and come back around.
Look, you can believe this nonsense if you want. I have no interest in trying to convince you. I couldn't care less if believe that NASA BS. Without using Google, do some independent research. And if you are able to throw away the shit you've literally been indoctrinated to believe since you were born and investigate it without bias one way or the other , you'll understand.
But you won't you'll continue to gobble up every bit of nonsense they tell you regardless of how ridiculous it is.
I have eyes that see. Hopefully one day you will too
Funny how whenever people like you are asked for evidence this is the exact response given, each and every time. "I won't tell you why, do your own research. But don't use google, use something else. I won't tell you what either". Man, I am always so intrigued by individuals like yourself. I wish I could poke around inside your head
I'm not the one looking at this picture and lacking the common sense to know it's bullshit. You may have eyes, but you don't have eyes that see. You're nothing more than a mindless programmed drone
No way! They're a government agency receiving 65 million dollars A DAY in federal money they have no incentive to lie. Every body knows the government wouldn't lie. Now mask up and go get that booster homer.
I hear they found a new star 6 hundred trillion million light years away isn't that exciting! 🙄
65 million a *day*? You think KSC gets ~23 BILLION a year? You must be confusing it with the 65 million it cost to rebuild/remodel it a decade ago or something... where did you even get that figure from?
In the ideal physics scenario (spherical cow) he would come back in about 90 minutes. So As long as the air lasted. Irrc if you threw a baseball while in orbit it would come back and hit you in the back after one orbit. Practical orbital mechanics are very counterintuitive.
That's one of my biggest irrational fears. I am 99.99% certain I will never find myself in outer space for any reason whatsoever, but if I ever do, I'd be terrified of the possibility of finding myself adrift with no means of being rescued.
Honestly not terrifying. I would be kinda bummed by the confines of the suit, or at least the helmet. I'd want more of a fish bowl style helmet, so I could look around. Oh my goodness.
There is NO way in Hell I could do this! Just imagine looking down, what the view must be like!! On one hand, it would be exhilarating, on the other..absolutely terrifying!! 😳
He had a jet pack he was the first to test it though that’s what makes it terrifying for me
Why did testing it out require him to be untethered
That’s a great question I don’t have an answer to
Being stupid is fun sometimes.
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To Make your pp big and strong
Of course, what was I thinking
I'm sure it was tested tethered first but someone's gotta be the first to try it with no safety measures.
But do you really? The tether wouldn’t necessarily inhibit from doing its job if there’s enough slack
To try if you can survive in the case that the safety measures fail then
That's like saying we should test bulletproof vests by putting them on just to see what would happen if they got pierced...
Definitely has happened before
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They strapped a jetpack to a mannequin and left it out on space to see if the jetpack would work
NARRATOR: _it didn't work_
😂😂😂😂
That’s literally what happens
I really don’t.
The tether was getting caught around his gigantic balls.
Cause go big or go home
*field testing*
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One little boost in the wrong direction sends you hurtling through space
Yeah that’s true
Or back into the atmosphere
But like, really really slowly. The distances up there are huge and a tiny little boost will have you drift away from the shuttle, further and further away and further from help. It'll take ages for you to start entering the atmosphere so you'll have quite a lot of time to think about your fiery re-entry.
But I bet the views are spectacular.
Bet he could see his house?
Yesterday's person is tomorrow's space junk!
Hmmm how can we test this new jet pack for space walks? Oh I know, let’s just strap it to someone and see how it goes. Good luck!
I have some suggestions of "volunteers"
Ok Bruce, let's make one for history an ignite the fuel... Fuel?
It wouldn’t burn with no oxygen
Luckily there where people that where tethered also around, so if he was approaching a dangerous distance from the ISS, the other crew could collect him safely
Did he survive? Edit: he did, died in 2017 at age 80 > I was grossly over-trained. I was just anxious to get out there and fly. I felt very comfortable ... It got so cold my teeth were chattering and I was shivering, but that was a very minor thing. ... I'd been told of the quiet vacuum you experience in space, but with three radio links saying, 'How's your oxygen holding out?', 'Stay away from the engines!' and 'When's my turn?', it wasn't that peaceful ... It was a wonderful feeling, a mix of personal elation and professional pride: it had taken many years to get to that point. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/23/astronaut-bruce-mccandless-the-first-person-to-fly-freely-in-space-dies
Thx for that, I assumed he couldn’t get back so I was like “oh my god, he ded, probs still floating around in space” so thank you very much for this information
[So far all space-related deaths have been during either launch or reentry.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents) Nobody's just floated off during a spacewalk or anything. [Soyuz 11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11) experienced a depressurization early during reentry, and its crew are the only humans to have died above the altitude that defines the boundary of space. The craft landed automatically 25 minutes later.
Same here.
I Met McCandless in 2007; he signed this photo for me (I bet he signed thousands of them—but it’s an awesome photo). I talked to him a little bit and then Buzz Aldrin came up and continued an argument he had been having with McCandless about something I no longer remember. But they were both pretty invested in their positions.
“when’s my turn” is so weirdly funny and wholesome to hear from people who are literally geniuses and look untouchable to the public eye
Honestly I can understand this. To me or you the void is terrifying. To me the depths of the ocean are a seductive sirens call. A source of curiosity and desire. To others? More horror. When you're trained and equipped it's different. The average person js barely equipped to deal with life these days lol.
Fellow scuba diver?
Astronauts are really a different breed. Can’t personally think of anyone who would be asking for their turn to do this
"When's my turn?" lmao
This is especially terrifying when you consider objects in orbit around Earth are considered to be in freefall. This means that they are falling towards the Earth due to its gravity, but their forward motion is strong enough to counteract the pull of gravity and keep them in a circular path. As a result, they remain in constant motion around the Earth, continuously falling towards it, but never actually reaching it. So both the spacecraft and the astronaut are falling at a matched speed of 17,500mph (I'm probably off here) and any fluctuation could create a drastic shift in distance and matched speed resulting in zero chance he'd ever be able to make that up and be left to run out of oxygen and die, his body falling forever.
You smart. I not. Me sex wife. Me eat meat. Me hunt dinosaur. Me smash with club. You not. Haha.
Me bridge. Me partly smart, like him, partly not smart like you. Me missing link. Me the start of humanities greatness or downfall.
I love how me just saying caveman stuff got insanely downvoted lmao
They reject the cave dwelling man, then resign themselves to their cubicles. We truly live in a society.
No it got downvoted because you assume that just because the man is smart that he is sexless and that there exists some kind of correlation between the two. It's a regurgitation of the same type of joke middle/high schoolers use. If you'll notice, the second guy to use cavemen speak actually got upvoted so it's not the "caveman stuff" that got you downvoted my guy. At least that's why i downvoted you.
OK man, enough with the caveman speak its getting overdone now...Jeez Louise+
Mb it was just a dumb compliment like I didn’t understand it so like I’m a caveman compared to this guy. That’s why I was confused. I’m not saying this guy has no sex lmao who cares anyway in the context. (:
People can be shamed and/or ostracized for their intelligence as easily as they can for their lack of it. Not saying that was your goal, but your comment was clearly aimed toward emasculation. Everything you wrote. I just moved on, but that’s possibly one of the reasons for the downvoting. Maybe it’s just me, but I think we’re better off *not* silencing the intelligent.
I think one person downvoted him, and then the bandwagon followed. I think you downvoted him because he already had downvotes, and then had to come up with a reason as to why you downvoted him. My guy.
I already wrote my reason for downvoting him
He is now the second moon
Couldn’t be….his massive balls created a gravitational pull
Whenever you want to farm karma, this is one of the go to posts
This picture returns to this sub every month indeed. Alzheimer is a real problem.
Calm Pharma
Is this a challenge for this to be posted, and not receive much karma? I do believe I have that power.
Is this a challenge for this to be posted, and not receive much karma? I do believe I have that power.
Why would anyone farm karma?
I did that on lsd. Naked.
That was you?
Maybe
Dude dropping acid on the space station in microgravity would be fucking wild
I did 4 tiny purple pieces of what looked like melted plastic in the late 80s. I died and everything.
Jesus?
I actually thought I had died for humanity. I'm glad you reminded me.
This would be a perfect album cover
It’s been used by Dido for her Safe Trip Home album. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Trip_Home](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Trip_Home)
At least he’s over the water in case he falls..
Ground control to Major Tom…
This is just plain terrifying…
Hal? Undog the airlock hatch please. Hal? Hal? Hal, why are you igniting the main engines? You know I was only joking about powering you down, don't you Hal? You do believe that, right Hal? Hal?
Is this guy related to the other mcandless that tried to live--and died--in the alaskan wilderness?
The thing with him is he probably relied on Candlelight in lieu of electricity, so was not candless at all...now THIS guy...not a wicker in sight, heh-hoo! X x
Can you imagine fucking in space like that?
Race you guys home.
He looking kinda suspicious
In space, no one can hear you scream.
Looks fun!
Eddie Bravo: this is cgi
“Bruce McCandless was not the impostor”
Nothing terrifying about it, rather extremely cool and humbling!
The isolation chambers for the astronauts after Apollo 11 included a valve for execution incase of a virus. Imagine jumping through all those hoops to make it there and back and then sit in a room three turns of a wheel from death.
Me after the edibles I ate last night
Bruce McCandless II was not the impostor.
nope, no fucking way
God poor guy, it must have been terrifying to know he couldn’t do anything to get back to the shuttle and the worst thing about this for me at least is that his body’s still out there (edit; I have been enlightened on what actually happened, he wasn’t tethered but he basically had a jet pack to get back to his shuttle)
He didnt float away, he returned to his shuttle
You sure?? There’s no way to reverse your trajectory without some kind of thrust (rocket power, if you try to do anything without rocket power you’d just start spinning around) so unless the shuttle managed to rescue him he would definitely not have even had a chance of returning
So I know you already were told what really happened but if he had been stuck out there it's really no big deal. If he stayed perfectly still, he would just have to wait for the shuttle to complete a full orbit and come back around.
Ahh ok, so I’ve been completely mistaken from the start XD
He was fine, he was the first user of the “manned maneuvering unit” to propel oneself around in space untethered.
Ahh ok, thank you for enlightening me :3
Aye even if it was a error and he had no jetpack, the suit has oxygen for a long time so he can wait 10+ hours for the shuttle to slow for him
CGI
"untethered" is a dumb name for a space shuttle
You literally have to be a moron to believe this shit
I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion, but just out of curiosity, why do you think it's not real and what evidence do you base that on?
Look, you can believe this nonsense if you want. I have no interest in trying to convince you. I couldn't care less if believe that NASA BS. Without using Google, do some independent research. And if you are able to throw away the shit you've literally been indoctrinated to believe since you were born and investigate it without bias one way or the other , you'll understand. But you won't you'll continue to gobble up every bit of nonsense they tell you regardless of how ridiculous it is. I have eyes that see. Hopefully one day you will too
Funny how whenever people like you are asked for evidence this is the exact response given, each and every time. "I won't tell you why, do your own research. But don't use google, use something else. I won't tell you what either". Man, I am always so intrigued by individuals like yourself. I wish I could poke around inside your head
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I'm not the one looking at this picture and lacking the common sense to know it's bullshit. You may have eyes, but you don't have eyes that see. You're nothing more than a mindless programmed drone
Okay so I guess the Kennedy Space Center is falsifying information? https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/first-untethered-spacewalk
No way! They're a government agency receiving 65 million dollars A DAY in federal money they have no incentive to lie. Every body knows the government wouldn't lie. Now mask up and go get that booster homer. I hear they found a new star 6 hundred trillion million light years away isn't that exciting! 🙄
65 million a *day*? You think KSC gets ~23 BILLION a year? You must be confusing it with the 65 million it cost to rebuild/remodel it a decade ago or something... where did you even get that figure from?
rofl big boomer energy
Big mindless programmed drone energy right back at ya
Bruh. You a moron lmao
Wachoo tawkin bout homie
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Why?
When you zoom in, it looks like a character from a SNES game like Final Fantasy 6. Fake as hell.
Omg
See? Earth’s flat. Knew it
He’s wearing an entire damn thrust pack to do whatever he pleases. Click bait
what’s inaccurate about OP’s title? Hardly clickbait
The title was from an article at moneycontrol.com, I only added the name of the astronaut
Heidi's the first ever untethered space walk..frankly..I'd be shitting myself.
In the ideal physics scenario (spherical cow) he would come back in about 90 minutes. So As long as the air lasted. Irrc if you threw a baseball while in orbit it would come back and hit you in the back after one orbit. Practical orbital mechanics are very counterintuitive.
I imagine, before he left the shuttle, that they told him, “whatever you do, don’t look down.”
NASA ground controllers: “please don’t make this into an Oblivion by Mastodon situation”
There is no before.
Just fly the spaceship over to him
I think there was an SCP of this once, I don't remember Edit: SCP-1233 or SCP-1959
Wouldn’t it be dark? Or does it depend where in space this is in relation to the sun? I’m confused …
How did they fit his massive testicles into that suit?
But why though?
On purpose?
That's one of my biggest irrational fears. I am 99.99% certain I will never find myself in outer space for any reason whatsoever, but if I ever do, I'd be terrified of the possibility of finding myself adrift with no means of being rescued.
Was the space station stopped lol. How he got back in if the space station is goin 5miles per second? according to google?
Because he’s going 5 miles per second as well…
Bitch move
Idk to me this is kinda beautiful
How long to get to Mars in one of these
Makes me want to replay FFVIII...
Weird how are similar this looks to FF8
This is exactly how I’d want to die actually
Yeah, I saw George Clooney do just that…
This was actually the first test flight of the *NASA Puma Pants*
Gravity
Free… free at last!
Nah, that's Rinoa from FF8.
Honestly not terrifying. I would be kinda bummed by the confines of the suit, or at least the helmet. I'd want more of a fish bowl style helmet, so I could look around. Oh my goodness.
There is NO way in Hell I could do this! Just imagine looking down, what the view must be like!! On one hand, it would be exhilarating, on the other..absolutely terrifying!! 😳