NASA Astronaut Group 5
Videos
NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a group of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. Of the six Lunar Module Pilots that walked on the Moon, three came from Group 5. The group as a whole is rough
Group 5 astronauts. Back row, left to right: Swigert, Pogue, Evans, Weitz, Irwin, Carr, Roosa, Worden, Mattingly, Lousma. Front row, from left to right: Givens, Mitchell, Duke, Lind, Haise, Engle, Brand, Bull, McCandless
Jim Irwin on the Moon on the Apollo 15 mission
Bruce McCandless II conducts an EVA during the STS-41-B mission
Vance D Brand
Bruce McCandless II
Videos
Bruce McCandless II was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered sp
NASA Astronaut Group 5
…STS-51-C, the first classified United States Department of Defense mission, in the Space Shuttle Discovery. He retired from NASA and the USN in 1985. Bruce McCandless II Boston, Massachusetts, June 8, 1937 December 21, 2017 McCandless received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1958…
McCandless in 1982
Bruce McCandless, February 2009