http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/0503/freeflyer_nasa.jpg
2006-07-17 13:41:55 · 33 answers · asked by Russel 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Freeflyer_nasa_big.jpg
2006-07-17 13:45:59 · update #1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Freeflyer_nasa_big.jpg
2006-07-17 13:46:02 · update #2
Yes.
Edit: Jeez, think a lot of people need to do some research first... a lot of armchair experts around...
2006-07-17 13:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by lazwatson 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Actually, misguided as "that guy..." is, he is right. All space suits do not have "suit jets" on them. In fact, none have since the MMU's were initially tried and were found to be harder to use than initially thought, so they were cancelled on future missions. MMU, or the Manned Maneuvering Unit, is what you can plainly see the astronauts has strapped to his back in the picture.
This was probably taken during a free-flight test of an MMU some years ago. As for the Russian space suit theory... Go look at a Russian EVA suit and tell me if it looks anything like the obviously American made suit in the picture.
2006-07-17 14:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by AresIV 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!
This is for real! This is either astronaut Bruce McCandless, Robert L. Stewart, James Van Hoften, or George Nelson, experimenting with the Extravehicular Mobility Unit, and I do mean experimenting!
Talk about not being able to get back in the boat.
It hasn't been used since challenger supposedly.
2006-07-17 16:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there was no astronaut in the suit. I forgot why they deployed it but it was a few years ago, they had to jettison a Russian space suit because it was no longer needed.
I can not remember why, but there was other debris inside the suit.
Also, NASA has MMU's or Mobile Maned Unit (Something like that), it is like a jet pack that allows astronauts to not be attached to anything and just fly around, but I don't think they use them anymore.
2006-07-17 13:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by Christopher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely not! NASA would never let an astronaut go out of the shuttle without some kind of tether. they dont have any kind of rocket packs or anything so if they started to float away there would be no way to retrieve them.
2006-07-17 13:48:34 · answer #5 · answered by DAVid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like the Moon Landing, If Nasa said it happened it did
2006-07-17 13:49:49 · answer #6 · answered by Whodaman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like some cheap graphics astronaut.
2006-07-17 15:12:53 · answer #7 · answered by pseudonym 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is when they were testing a jetpack in the astronaut broke the string connecting him to the station this jetpack is not powerful enough to lift a person on Earth
2006-07-17 14:06:56 · answer #8 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why wouldn't it be, all the guy had to do is float about 20 feet away from the shuttle for that pic. in which case he just used his suit jets to come back.
2006-07-17 14:20:47 · answer #9 · answered by Cyrus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow can't they do amazing stuff with Computer Graphics, now!
2006-07-17 13:43:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
naw! i doubt that a man would be floatn in space with know space shuttle or stars just black
2006-07-17 13:47:02 · answer #11 · answered by Chantal..carpe diem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋