First NASA Astronaut To Fly Untethered In Space, Dies At 80

HOUSTON (AP) — NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80.
McCandless died Thursday in California, NASA’s Johnson Space Center announced Friday. No cause of death was given.
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II performs EVA (extra-vehicular activity) with a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) during the STS-41-B mission, February 1984. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)
He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a h