Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: KOKOJAN, Herman
Event Date: 1982-02-25
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237798

Inscriptions:
Recto, typed: NASA / National Aeronautics and / Space Administration / Houston, Texas 77058; typed: 582 27599; Verso, stamped: NASA / National Aeronautics and / Space Administration / Houston, Texas 77058 / For Release: / Photo No: S-82-27599 [typed number]; stamped label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1984 / OWEN H K [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; typed: COLOR / 25 FEBRUARY 1982 / JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / ASTRONAUT MODELS MANNED MANEUVERING UNIT---Astronaut Bruce / McCandless II models a backpack device that seems to be pro- / pelling him through space in this photograph, made in JSC’s / laboratory support facility. The manned maneuvering unit / (MMU) will be used by astronauts on operational flights of / the near future to give them new mobility. Hand-controlled, / the package is propelled by gaseous nitrogen. It fits onto / the astronaut’s extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), also / modeled here by McCandless. The first few Space Shuttle / missions will not require EVA’s and the backpack will not / be carried on by them, but soon thereafter it should become / standard onboard hardware for STS missions; stamped: PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration; typed: NO COPYRIGHT IS ASSERTED FOR THIS PHOTOGRAPH. IF A RECOGNIZABLE / PERSON APPEARS IN THE PHOTO, USE FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES MAY / INFRINGE A RIGHT OF PRIVACY OR PUBLICITY. IT MAY NOT BE USED TO / STATE OR IMPLY THE ENDORSEMENT BY NASA OR BY ANY NASA EMPLOYEE / OF A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, PROCESS, OR SERVICE, OR USED IN ANY OTHER / MANNER THAT MAY MISLEAD. ACCORDINGLY, IT IS REQUESTED THAT IF / THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED IN ADVERTISING AND OTHER COMMERCIAL / PROMOTION, LAYOUT AND COPY BE SUBMITTED TO NASA PRIOR TO RELASE; handwritten: Kokojan

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