We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other things, not because they are
easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
Sept. 12, 1962
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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 |
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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
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B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, US Naval Academy, 1958
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 1965
MBA, University of Houston at Clear Lake, 1987
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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.
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Assigned to the aircraft carriers, USS Forrestal and USS Enterprise during the early 1960's and was aboard Enterprise during the blockade of Cuba.
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1964, served an an instrument flight instructor at Apollo Soucek Field in Oceana, Virginia.
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Co-investigator in the planning of the Manned Maneuvering Unit(MMU) used in Space Shuttle EVA's.
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February 1984, MS1 aboard STS 41B (Challenger) making the first untethered spacewalk in history using the MMU he helped develop.
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April 1990, MS2 aboard STS 31 (Discovery) during the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Left NASA to join the Martin-Marietta Astronautics Co. in Denver, Colorado.
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