“This is neat,” he said, before peering down.
“Looks like Florida. It is Florida!” he exclaimed, remarking later that the panorama “really is beautiful.”
During his second space shuttle mission, in 1990, Mr. McCandless helped deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. By the end of his career, he had logged more than 300 hours in space, including four hours in a manned maneuvering unit, according to his NASA biography.
Bruce McCandless II was born on June 8, 1937, in Boston into a family of high-ranking Naval officers. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Long Beach, Calif., and received a bachelor of science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1958. He later earned two master’s degrees — one in electrical engineering from Stanford University and another in business administration from the University of Houston at Clear Lake City. (Source: nytimes.com)
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