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              - Mission:  STS-41-B
 
              - Film Type:  70mm
 
              - Title: Views of the extravehicular activity during STS 41-B
 
              - Description: Astronaut  Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist, participates in a extra-vehicular activity ( EVA), a few meters away from the cabin of the shuttle  Challenger. He is using a nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled  manned maneuvering unit (MMU). He is performing this EVA without being tethered to the shuttle. The picture shows a cloud view of the earth in the background.
 
              
             
            Deutsch: Astronaut  Bruce McCandless II bei einem Außenbordeinsatz während der Mission  STS-41-B 
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           11 February 1984 | 
          
          
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