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Pic of astronaut floating above Earth viral, Twitter user says 'Most terrifying space pic'
short by Daisy Mowke / on Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
A photo of astronaut Bruce McCandless II's spacewalk in 1984 has gone viral after it was shared on Twitter by a science page. He was the first astronaut to fly untethered from his spacecraft. "Perhaps the most terrifying space photograph to date," the post read. "This represents a level of trust in people and technology...I'll never have," a comment read.