| 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 | ||
| Return to Master List | American Astronauts | Spacewalkers |
| Two Spaceflights | Space Shuttle Program - 1984 / 1990 | |
Updated - June 7, 2006