NASA Photo ID: S84-27019          File Name: 10061758.gif 
 
Film Type: 70mm cn                Date Taken: 02/11/84 
 
Title: Views of the extravehicular activity during STS 41-B 
 
Description: 
 
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist, participates in a  
extravehicular activity (EVA), a few meters away from the cabin of the  
shuttle Challenger. He is using a nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled manned  
maneuvering unit (MMU). He is performing this EVA without being tethered to  
the shuttle. Below him can be seen a cloud view of the earth (27017);  
McCandless approaches his maximum distance from the Challenger. He is 
framed  by the blackness of space and below him a cloudy earth (27018); 
McCandless is  centered in a background of clouds and earth in this view of 
his EVA. As in  the others, he is floating without tethers (27019).