Bruce, the Human Satellite

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Owner:: Equinox017 Message this owner
Released:: Friday, April 4, 2003
Origin:: California, United States
Recently Spotted:: In the hands of RONS11866.

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Current Goal

To visit any and all sites associated with the exploration of space.

Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Île Feydeau, Nantes, France
National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
International Space Hall of Fame, Alamogordo, NM
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Tranquility Base, Luna
and more...

About This Item

“But happy thought! Why cannot we walk outside like the meteor? Why cannot we launch into space through the scuttle? What enjoyment it would be to feel oneself thus suspended in ether, more favored than the birds who must use their wings to keep themselves up!”

Round the Moon

The first person to fly free, untethered in space was Bruce McCandless II. On February 7, 1984 during the tenth flight of a Space Shuttle (mission 41-B), McCandless floated from the cargo bay into outer space, 150 nautical miles above Earth, and became a human satellite.

He described the experience as “a heck of a big leap.”

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Tracking History (8271mi) View Map

3/22/2005	Equinox017 posted a note for it		Visit Log
So [b]that's[/b] where my Travel Bug got to! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050322.html
4/24/2004	RONS11866 retrieved it from The Treasure Mound	Florida	Visit Log
picked up Bruce gonna get Him close to the cape! see Him soon
3/22/2004	hiddenrock placed it in The Treasure Mound	Florida - 15.35 miles	Visit Log

3/22/2004	hiddenrock retrieved it from I'm Seeing Red	Florida	Visit Log
I'll try to move this towards KSC.
3/15/2004	13moons placed it in I'm Seeing Red	Florida - 46.02 miles	Visit Log

3/1/2004	13moons retrieved it from King's Park	Florida	Visit Log
Bruce traveled to Orlando, the home of astronaut John Young.
2/20/2004	Marky placed it in King's Park	Florida	Visit Log

2/20/2004	Marky retrieved it from King's Park	Florida	Visit Log
Grabbing and dropping this bug to correct my bug count.
2/6/2004	wotte placed it in King's Park	Florida - 4,678.64 miles	Visit Log

1/19/2004	wotte grabbed it		Visit Log
Picked Bruce up from King of the Mountain II in Houston, TX. It is sitting in Johnson Space Center at this moment, on my desk. I will see if I can hook it to a geocacher heading for another NASA site... ...Feb 6th: Sent it to Johnson Space Center, where it made the rounds before being deposited in a cache in King's Park. Funny Story: I sent it with a bunch of engineers who had never used a GPS before. They said that they had a hard time figuring out the GPS, and were easily distracted in their investigations - "Look what I can do!" (One engineer runs across a field with the unit) "I just ran 4.6 miles per hour!" but they accomplished the mission. --Thanks, guys & gals! [This entry was edited by wotte on Friday, February 06, 2004 at 3:13:41 PM.] [This entry was edited by wotte on Friday, February 06, 2004 at 3:23:27 PM.]
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