Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: KOKOJAN, Herman
Event Date: 1978-09
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237800

Inscriptions:
Recto, stamped: NASA / National Aeronautics and / Space Administration / Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Houston, Texas 77058; typed: S-78-23770; Verso, stamped: NASA / National Aeronautics and / Space Administration / Houston, Texas 77058 / For Release: / Photo No: / [illeg.]; stamped label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1984 / OWEN H K [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; typed: COLOR (ARTWORK) / SEPTEMBER 1978 s-78-23779 / JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / SHUTTLE RESCUE MISSION EVA WITH MMU---An artist’s concept / depicting a rescue mission extravehicular activity (EVA) using / a manned maneuvering unit (MMU), a gaseous nitrogen-propelled, / hand-controlled device. The back borne-MMU would enable a crew / member from a rescue orbiter craft to shuttle about in space / between it and a plagued craft in the event of orbiter failure, / for example, difficultly with the vehicle’s altitude stabilizing / element. The astronaut in the foreground has carried a crew / member from the crippled orbiter in the background to the able / craft in the foreground by using a rescue ball or pressurized / spherical enclosure. A close look at the orbiter in the background / reveals another MMU equipped astronaut assisting the rescue of / another crew member. Flight articles of the MMY may fly aboard / Shuttle as early as November, 1982. The MMU has never before / been used outside of a spacecraft, but the device was successfully / tested in the roomy orbital workshop (OWS) on the Skylab space / station in late 1973 and early 1974. C.E. Whisett of the crew / systems division in the engineering and development directorate / at the NASA-Johnson Space Center (JSC) is subsystem manager / of the MMU. Martin Marietta Corporation is NASA’s contractor / for the MMU. Whiteset was principal investor for the / Skylab-tested device as well / PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration; 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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