Robert L. Stewart
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Robert Lee Stewart is an American retired military officer and NASA astronaut who was a brigadier general of the United States Army.
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Robert L. Stewart
Stewart (left) with John Rouse, University of Texas at Arlington Dean of Engineering, 1984
Bruce McCandless II
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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
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…in flight. Upon completion of this mission Stewart became the first Army officer awarded the Army Astronaut Badge. Stewart’s first EVA, together with Bruce McCandless, lasted 6 hours and 17 minutes. During the second EVA, Stewart used the MMU for an untethered spacewalk, lasted 5 hours and 55 minutes. STS-51-J Atlantis…
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McCandless using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) during STS-41-B, photographed by Robert Gibson
Bruce McCandless, February 2009