Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU)

[@alexanderleeart]

those guys must have had nerves of steel

[@JamieShortz]

+Alexander Lee They had the best balls for doing that shit.. Scary...

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

Yep.

[@williamwhitman4889]

RIP Bruce McCandless The Man for sure

[@frankv7068]

Balls* of steel

[@UniteAgainstEvil]

😂 if any of you believe any of that, I feel sorry for you.. fakes stuff ever, wow.. how did that fool anyone??

[@justinpower4475]

-"How am I supposed to stay attached to this first-ever, prototype jet pack floating freely in space?" -"No worries bra! We got my guitar strap for that."

[@darrenmarchant1720]

we need a whole new rebuild of this concept. the new MMU must be able to do much more.

[@sound4294]

You make the good video Bruce McCandless is my favorite astronaut and I like how he is a jet pack in space without a tether

[@artman40]

So basically, this thing allows a person to become a moon temporarily.

[@panzersusmander3728]

*Satellite, even the moon is technically a satellite (not all satellites are moons, but all moons are satellites)

[@bjaminstaples]

Well that would really suck if it stopped working. You would just be floating in space

[@Cosmic_Solace]

yep...either he/she has to be rescued by a co-astronaut..or after life support stops,the astronaut floats to his/her death.. :(

[@artman40]

You'd become a moon.

[@DarqeDestroyer]

AuroraS 92 If the MMU quit working and they had no other MMU on board, they would go after him in the shuttle itself. It has its own manauvering thrusters, and with much more of a fuel reserve than the MMU. They'd fly past him, get in front of him, and let him drift into the payload bay.

[@ceilinggod]

incorrect ... the shuttle moves in only one direction in order to maintain orbit ... it can move up or down , left or right .... but one thing it CAN'T do is STOP and turn around ... if it stops it's forward momentum , it falls out of orbit .... you would have to WAIT for it to come back around again .... JESUS !!! DID ANY OF YOU PAY ATTENTION IN SCIENCE CLASS ???

[@nuffelbagget9173]

I'm pretty sure slowing down a few miles or kilometers an hour won't make a shuttle that is moving at 17,500 mph or 28,000 kmh instantly fall out of orbit

[@MarkArandjus]

Amazing footage!

[@scottjustscott3730]

Sooooo scary! These men and women ALL had balls of stainless steel!

[@scottjustscott3730]

Original comment, I know.

[@greggonzales8]

No shit lol

[@George.Alexandrakis.-rz1sm]

No it's not original. You added "stainless". I might add stainless 304 or better stainless 316.

[@gabrielvarig]

I would give anything to be a human satellite myself (almost anything)...

[@ViralVeediuh]

Still interested?

[@playthegamelike]

how many times can you say Manned Maneuvering Unit in 2 minutes?

[@benkim6969]

+Mr Prawn 108 times

[@alleycat1977]

Disappointingly, she went for 6... but it was a sufficient amount for the reprogramming process. I now believe that it was called a Man. Maneuvering. Unit.

[@cqtaylor]

I would be so fearful of micrometerorites; what would protect the astronaut against that?

[@George.Alexandrakis.-rz1sm]

Is this vehicle comes with green light on the right and red on the left?

[@philipdove1705]

I wonder if they have smaller ones now

[@RiKaChAn1000]

This is awesome :D

[@he110me]

please specify what you meant: were you saying this video is fake or something?

[@am3ient]

I keep expecting bond to fly past, Moonraker style.

[@kedarnathJha]

I travelled in MMU

[@chandrasekarg1028]

how it works?

[@archanapant9151]

Wow it is amazing

[@1000teresa4ever]

Who were the astronauts in this clip?

[@NYCeesFinest]

Probably freemasons.

[@thejunior9497]

Bruve McCandless

[@marcio_souza007]

Yeah, the past 1984 is the future.

[@itsme-ty1pt]

imagine if a little piece of meteor punctured the MMU or the helmet... fuck THAT

[@jmcfarlandjr]

That had to have been a rush.

[@joey8062]

I would love to be in that thing so cool

[@Dr_Do-Little]

And then they found out it was much better to have the astronaut "fixed" to the Canadarm... Still cool.

[@thesurvivalist.]

The MMU or Manned Maneuvering Unit is old school and obsolete! A fuel cell based space suit with hydrogen propulsion, that recycles the water for drinking and use the waste for both heating and cooling thermal control as a full close looped system, Also since all space suits leak suits must be able to resupply their own oxygen, fuel and water supply through the recycling of water. Make the fuel cell the nexus of all space suits design!

[@joey8062]

yes its obsolete, but it did get things done.

[@thesurvivalist.]

joey8062 true the next generation has to be hydrogen based, and self refueling with fuel cells, otherwise space suits are worth less became they all leak all the time. Having a suit like that at least allows mankind to survive if a ship or station has to be abandoned, we should be able to survive a month on just a spacesuit, and have thrusters that use hydrogen for faster travel, fuel cell would allow, oxygen generation, hydrogen generation, and water as well.

[@thesurvivalist.]

Pu La one more thing a full cells allows for battery recharging and we can add a small solar panel system if batteries were damaged.

[@thesurvivalist.]

Pu La We should do the same for our next generation spacecraft as well. In space who has time to run back to a space station, a spaceship or Earth for fuel.

[@joey8062]

Pu La I agree, plus those manned units are so amazing

[@dandmarcus]

Did she say you can return to earth with the MMU? 😱

[@dandmarcus]

+tiaxanderson Ah, makes sense now! I was thinking "there is no way in hell we are that advanced... or are we? 😳" lol Thank you for clearing that up!

[@Spectalys]

Gravity !!!!

[@kingguydan]

So like, a jet pack? Because if so and even if not, shit just went from 0 to 100 real friciking quick

[@blablabla1dawg]

how can you accelerate with this method when there is only empty space?

[@spookyghostship]

It has tanks filled with nitrogen that spray and subsequently cause propulsion.

[@blablabla1dawg]

Conner Knight ok ty didnt know that newtons thrid law applied to space.

[@hyperthreaded]

Newton's 3rd law means that you accelerate in anything, anywhere, by accelerating something else in the opposite direction. A jet engine on a plane accelerates the plane by accelerating outside air, mixed with burned fuel exhaust, in the opposite direction. When you're driving a car and step on the gas, the car's wheels accelerate the car by accelerating the earth in the opposite direction (really). And when you want to accelerate in space, since there's no outside thing that you could accelerate, you must accelerate something that you took with you, e.g. pressurized gas from a container, in the opposite direction.

[@nicbleu]

WHY THIS VIDEO HAVE THE SAME 2 TOP COMMENTS ?

[@lovejetfuel4071]

I would do it, I might be terrified of spiders but id do this in a heartbeat if given the chance

[@dipi71]

APOD 2017-12-31 _(»To Fly Free in Space«)_ sent me here. Cheers!

[@bob15479]

That is TERRIFYING.

[@Lachausis]

Or the Shuttle itself.

[@DonQuickZote]

Wow

[@inspectorfunk]

didn't know that jet pack in gravity was real, and that it was already invented almost 30 years ago/

[@alleycat1977]

"If I keep saying man maneuvering unit, it'll be true."

[@SoaringIntoTheHeart]

I wish I could buhhda pack inhaler flaming gas my lungs and do that shit with today's models and tech on the manned maneuvering suit 😂 id trip so hard and have some insane eye openers and changes on perception fr though 😊

[@nichventura344]

mbc.

[@marinadelossantos7765]

Que wüevos

[@iirateddown2]

LOOOOOOOOLLLLL

[@imTraiinY]

Blöff amk

[@sm1sm2sm3]

Man, this woman speaks SO SLOWLY!!! It annoys me lol

[@truedeadandlife]

Fake?

[@joey8062]

Nope

[@CrazyPets0]

No...

[@AG.Floats]

No......

[@TontoBongRonto]

Obviously lol "people wont beleive anything until they see it on television " - Nixon

[@nocurvenoedge6740]

different videos - but not a single STAR in outer space ....

[@ronaldgatlin1084]

you realize that these cameras are of poor picture quality and that stars are dimmer than you think? hell, go outside at night with a crappy phone camera and try to photograph a star.

[@october6432]

ok man

[@anacondamaltliquor6416]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vallll6658]

What a crock 🤣