Untethered Space Walk

Two jet propelled astronauts unhooked their lifelines from the space shuttle discovery on friday and flew free 150 miles above earth in the first untethered spacewalks.
Untethered space walk. This image and the one below shot by astronaut robert gibson rank among nasa s top ten most requested images. 7 1984 two challenger space shuttle astronauts capt. 7 1984 astronaut bruce mccandless made history performing a spacewalk during sts 41b with no lifelines tethering him to space shuttle challenger. Kennedy space center fla.
Bruce mccandless ii and col l robert l. Stewart during the 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk. He was subsequently joined by robert l. Using the manned maneuvering unit mmu mccandless and astronaut bob stewart completed separate untethered spacewalks during the mission both venturing more than 300 feet 91 meters from challenger.
All moonwalks were performed with astronauts untethered and some of the astronauts traveled far enough to lose visual contact with their craft they were up to 7 6 km away from it using the lunar roving vehicle. In a still startling nasa image from that mission untethered mccandless hangs 320 feet from challenger suspended above our impossibly blue planet and appearing paradoxically powerful and fragile. It was captured during mission sts 41b on 11 february 1984. 1 2016 astronaut bruce mccandless on first ever untethered spacewalk astronaut bruce mccandless ii one of two sts 41b mission specialists participating in a historic spacewalk is a few meters away from the cabin of the earth orbiting space shuttle challenger in this 70mm frame on feb.
It s pretty obvious that the first untethered spacewalk would be on the list of one of the most iconic moments in human space history.