{"id":182119,"date":"2024-02-06T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-iconic-photos-from-sts-41b-documenting-the-first-untethered-spacewalk"},"modified":"2024-02-06T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:23:29","slug":"the-iconic-photos-from-sts-41b-documenting-the-first-untethered-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-iconic-photos-from-sts-41b-documenting-the-first-untethered-spacewalk","title":{"rendered":"The Iconic Photos from STS-41B: Documenting the First Untethered Spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-iconic-photos-from-sts-41b-documenting-the-first-untethered-spacewalk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MMU was the highlight of the STS-41B mission as demonstrated by the stunning mission photographs that graced the cover of <em>Aviation Week &amp; Space Technology<\/em>, not once, not twice, but three times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoot\u201d Gibson, the flight\u2019s pilot, shot the photograph featured on the February 20, 1984, issue of the magazine from the crew cabin. Gibson remembered he was the only one on the crew that \u201chad absolutely nothing to do\u201d as McCandless made his way out into space, so he picked up a Hasselblad camera and began documenting the events. When he first looked through the camera\u2019s viewfinder, he could not believe what an incredible sight it was to see McCandless untethered, floating above the Earth. Gibson wanted to capture what he was seeing and remembered how meticulous he was. For each photograph he took three light meter readings and checked the focus four times. In the crew\u2019s photography training he learned that an off-kilter horizon looked wrong and was not pleasing to the eye. That presented a slight problem because Challenger was at a 28.5-degree inclination, so he \u201ctilted the camera to put the horizon level in the pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MMU was the highlight of the STS-41B mission as demonstrated by the stunning mission photographs that graced the cover of Aviation Week &amp; Space Technology, not once, not twice, but three times. \u201cHoot\u201d Gibson, the flight\u2019s pilot, shot the photograph featured on the February 20, 1984, issue of the magazine from the crew cabin. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}