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- MMU
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- This is Bruce McCandless piloting
- the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU)
- during Shuttle mission STS-41-B.
- Bruce is cooly cruising through
- space 200 miles above Earth at
- over 4 miles per second
- (yes, that IS fast).
- ...
- On this first test flight of the
- MMU, Bruce flew this $15 million
- piece of hardware about 300 feet
- from the Orbiter (before realizing
- he forgot to go to the bathroom
- before suiting up -- just kidding).
- With only 6 hours of fuel and
- batteries, Bruce cannot venture far
- before risking a one way trip into
- space.
- ...
- The MMU was successfully used to
- help retrieve the Palapa B-2 and
- Westar VI satellites on Mission
- STS-51-A.
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