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Bruce McCandless II
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Bruce McCandless II (1937–2017) was an American military officer, astronaut, aircraft pilot, and engineer. Born in Boston, he served as a captain in the United States Navy and was a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5. His education included studies at the United States Naval Academy, Stanford University, and the University of Houston–Clear Lake. McCandless was a crew member on the STS-41-B and STS-31 missions, accumulating 18,751 units of time in space while employed by NASA.
He received several honors, including the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the NASA Space Flight Medal, the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, and induction into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. McCandless authored the work *Space for the 21st Century*. He died on December 21, 2017, in Conifer and was buried at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Space for the 21st Century
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1937
- Active to
- 2017
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,395x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,962x
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,321x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,049x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Byron Willis McCandless , ( 1937-06-08 ) June 8, 1937, Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
- Died
- December 21, 2017 (2017-12-21) (aged 80), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Resting place
- United States Naval Academy Cemetery
- Education
- United States Naval Academy ( BS ), Stanford University ( MS ), University of Houston ( MBA )
- Spouses
- Bernice Doyle McCandless (1960-2014) Ellen Shields McCandless (2014-2017)
- Rank
- Captain , USN
- Time in space
- 13d 0h 31m
- Selection
- NASA Group 5 (1966)
- Total eva time
- 12h 12m
- Missions
- STS-41-B , STS-31
- Retirement
- August 31, 1990
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Early life and education
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