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Maneuvering Unit, Automatically Stabilized, Skylab

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 ...
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Toy, Space Shuttle Astronaut and Manned Maneuvering Unit

Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This toy ...
Aviation Week

SAS To Work With NASA On Autonomous Maneuvering Unit

SAS sees a market for an Autonomous Maneuvering Unit to help with in-space servicing. Credit: SAS Special Aerospace Services (SAS) has been awarded a Space Act Agreement by NASA to develop an ...
Aviation Week

From The Archives: Martin Marietta Corp.'s Maneuvering Unit For NASA Skylab Program

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Bruce McCandless and His Flying Machine

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, who died last December at the age of 80, was a principal designer and the first test pilot of NASA’s Manned Maneuvering Unit, first flown on shuttle mission STS-41B in ...