{"id":421472,"date":"2017-12-22T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4a548f19cdc849e5f7716f0247c3700c"},"modified":"2017-12-22T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:03:00","slug":"bruce-mccandless-first-astronaut-to-fly-untethered-in-space-has-died-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=421472","title":{"rendered":"Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut To Fly Untethered In Space, Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/02\/27\/601259main_jetpack_full_wide-7f6b02016abad0e84cfebebc4579d73ab7a1b0c4.jpg?s=600' alt='On Feb. 12, 1984, Bruce McCandless ventured away unrestrained from the safety of his spaceship, which no previous astronaut had done. He could do it because of a brand-new, jet-powered backpack.'\/><\/p>\n<p>He helped develop the jet-powered backpack that allowed him to float away from the shuttle and safely back again. He said he wanted to inspire people to say, &#8220;I can do better than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=517135809' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He helped develop the jet-powered backpack that allowed him to float away from the shuttle and safely back again. He said he wanted to inspire people to say, &#8220;I can do better than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421473,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421472\/revisions\/421473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}