Bruce McCandless II
Astronaut

Date of Birth: August 6, 1937
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Joined NASA: April 4, 1966
Left NASA: August 31, 1990
Space Flights: 2
Time in Space: 13 days, 31 minutes
Number of EVA's: 2
Total EVA Time: 12 hours, 12 minutes
MISSION ASSIGNMENTS
Apollo 10
Assignment: Support Crew & Capcom

Apollo 11
Assignment: Capcom (during the very first lunar EVA)

Apollo 14
Assignment: Capcom

Skylab 2
Assignment: Back-up Command Module Pilot

Skylab 3
Assignment: Capcom

Skylab 4
Assignment: Capcom

STS 41B
February 3-11, 1984
Assignment: Mission Specialist 1
Flight Duration: 7 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes

STS 31
April 24-29, 1990
Assignment: Mission Specialist 2
Flight Duration: 5 days, 1 hour, 16 minutes

HIGHLIGHTS

  • B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, US Naval Academy, 1958
    M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 1965
    MBA, University of Houston at Clear Lake, 1987

  • Graduate of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, recieved flight training at the Naval Air Training Command stations in Pensacola, Florida and Kingsville, Texas, recieving his wings in 1960.

  • Assigned to the aircraft carriers, USS Forrestal and USS Enterprise during the early 1960's and was aboard Enterprise during the blockade of Cuba.

  • 1964, served an an instrument flight instructor at Apollo Soucek Field in Oceana, Virginia.

  • Co-investigator in the planning of the Manned Maneuvering Unit(MMU) used in Space Shuttle EVA's.

  • February 1984, MS1 aboard STS 41B (Challenger) making the first untethered spacewalk in history using the MMU he helped develop.

  • April 1990, MS2 aboard STS 31 (Discovery) during the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.

  • Left NASA to join the Martin-Marietta Astronautics Co. in Denver, Colorado.