they say that this is the scariest space photo ever taken and I don't think you really understand just how insane this is this is a picture of Bruce mandas the very first human ever to do an untethered spacewalk he went 100 m or about 330 ft away from his space shuttle without anything connecting him to it 290 km off of the surface of Earth surrounded by nothing but trillions of miles of empty space the purpose of this was to test the man maneuvering unit essentially a space jetpack and lucky for him it worked and he
was able to make it back to the Challenger when asked about the experience he said that it was was so cold that his teeth were chattering and he was shivering but he felt a mix of personal Elation and Professional Pride here's another picture of him getting ready to float away it's been 40 years since this picture was taken and it's still one of NASA's most iconic photographs and the perfect symbol of human exploration and innovation