Click to open image viewer. This maneuvering unit is designed to assist an astronaut in moving around outside the spacecraft. It has three small compressed gas thrusters that operate when the ...

Special Aerospace Services’s Autonomous Maneuvering Unit. Image credit: Special Aerospace Services. At long last, astronaut jetpacks may be coming back into style, with NASA funding a new project ...

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Astronaut Bruce McCandless tests the balance and control of a test model of an astronaut maneuvering unit at Martin Marietta Corp.'s Denver Division, as seen on the cover of the August 2, 1971 issue ...