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    Astronaut Robert Stewart testing a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). Taken on 7 and 9 February 1984.
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    Astronaut Robert Stewart testing a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). Taken on 7 and 9 February 1984.

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    1. YoungestDonkey on

      So much equipment to merely achieve what Matt Daemon can do by punching a hole in his glove.

    2. mtnviewguy on

      My hat’s off to you Sir!👍🇺🇸

      I would want a colonospocy prep before that, so there would be nothing between my mouth and my ass but air, because I’m pretty sure I’d crap, piss, or puke, or the trifecta, being untethered and floating in space.

      One malfunction with that suit, and you’d eventually be a fleeting meteor in the night sky.

    4. Phaigat_Singh on

      What is in the box ?

      The big square white bag or box on his back. What it stores mostly ?

    5. greengrass9000 on

      There are degrees to which we trust in technology. Will the car start when I turn the key, will the light go on when I flip this switch, will I disappear off into the cosmos never to be seen again when I squeeze this trigger.

    6. schpanckie on

      That is a proper spacewalk, not just standing up thru a moonroof/door on a Musk rocket ride.

    7. reddittatwork on

      Is he not tethered as backup?

      I wonder if it gets really really scary for them when they move from the sunlight to darkness

    8. longperipheral on

      Must have been such an incredible feeling, to be looking *away* from our planet, to the station, and the star-studded expanse beyond it. 

    9. entered_bubble_50 on

      Fascinating! I thought the only untethered space walk was by Bruce McCandless. Didn’t realise there were two people in the universe with the guts to do this.

    10. Beerwithme on

      A small single person craft with manipulators and auto-pilot would make work in space so much easier.