Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Photographer: KOKOJAN, Herman
Event Date: 1982-07-03
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237794

Inscriptions:
Recto, stamped: NASA / National Aeronautics and / Space Administration / S82-35296 [typed number] / Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Houston, Texas 77058; Verso, stamped: NASA / National Aeronautics and / Space Adminisration / Houston, Texas 77058 / For Relase: / Photo No.; stamped label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1984 / OWEN H.K [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; typed: COLOR / 3 JULY 1983 S-83-35296 / JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / 41-B MISSION SPECIALIST --- Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41B / mission specialist, demonstrates the manned maneuvering unit [illeg.] / and its flight support station (kept in the Shuttle orbiter’s cargo / bay). The support station aids as astronaut on an extravehicular / activity in donning and doffing the [illeg.]. The backpack device has / been the subject of a great deal of study and training and testing / by NASA, and by McCandless, for some time. McCandless; 41b / mission is now scheduled for launch in January 1984. It will be the / fifth flight of the orbiter, Challenger, and will be a seven day / flight featuring the launch of an Indonesian communications satellite / [illeg.]; handwritten: Kokojan

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / ASTRONAUT-BRUCE MCCANDLESS-THE FIRST SPACE WALK-ALL BY NASA
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