40 Years Ago: STS-41B, the First Flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit - NASA

On Feb. 3, 1984, space shuttle Challenger took off on its fourth flight, STS-41B. Its five-person crew of Commander Vance D. Brand, Pilot Robert L. “Hoot”

40 years ago, he became the first one-man spacecraft

STS-41B - NASA

40 years since the first spacewalk without a safety cable

40 Years Ago: STS-41B, the First Flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit - NASA

40 Years Ago: STS-41B, the First Flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit - NASA

List of Space Shuttle missions - Wikipedia

40 Years Ago: STS-41B, the First Flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit - NASA

More Favored than the Birds The Manned Maneuvering Unit in Space

40 years ago, he became the first one-man spacecraft