Name: McCandless, Bruce Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 2

Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
1. STS-41B February 3, 1984 - Challenger February 11, 1984 - Challenger
2. STS-31 April 24, 1990 - Discovery April 29, 1990 - Discovery

Space Flights Descriptions
Apollo 14
(Support Crew)
Manned lunar landing at the Fra Mauro area - February 5, 1971
Lunar Lift Off - February 6, 1971
Skylab 2
(Backup Crew)
First manned Skylab mission
1. STS-41B Deployed Westar VI for Western Union Telegraph and Palapa B-2 for Indonesia
Failure of PAM stages left both satellites in low Earth orbit. The satellites were recovered during the STS-51A mission. Shuttle Pallet Satellite 1A (SPAS-1A) became the first satellite to be refurbished and flown again.
STS-61J
(Cancelled)
Planned shuttle mission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Cancelled after the Challenger disaster
2. STS-31 Deployed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Spacewalks - 2
Space Flights Date & Duration Purpose
STS-41B February 7, 1984 First untethered spacewalk (EVA) using the Manned Maneuvering Unit. Rehearse Solar Maximum Mission (Solar Max) repair
5 hours 55 minutes
STS-41B February 9, 1984 Test Manned Maneuvering Unit. Rehearse Solar Max repair
6 hours 17 minutes

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Updated - June 7, 2006