Bruce McCandless II
American - (NASA)
Deceased
Date of Birth: June 8, 1937
Date of Death: Dec. 21, 2017
Bruce McCandless II was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-41-B
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Feb. 3, 1984, 1 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:
STS-41-B was the tenth Space Shuttle mission and the fourth of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It deployed 2 communication satellites and inluded the first untethered spacewalk. It was also the first shuttle mission to land at Kennedy Space Center.
Low Earth OrbitSpace Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-31 (Hubble)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 24, 1990, 12:33 p.m.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-77
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Electron
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandLaunch of a yet to identified satellite to SSO for an undisclosed customer. The customer is suspected to be Low Earth Orbit communication satellite c…
Falcon 9
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Ionosfera-M 1 & 2
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian FederationIonosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond. The s…
H3-22
DSN 3 (Kirameki 3)
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 - Tanegashima Space Center, JapanDSN 3, also known as Kirameki 3, is a geostationary communications satellite to be used for military communications by the Japanese military.
