something unique surely happens everyday. not to you or i, but to someone. on this day in 1984 something very unique happened. navy captain bruce mccandless become the first human being to fly untethered in space. unteathered! the man floated through space with a fucking nitrogen powered jet pack. a jet pack! he exited the space shuttle challenger and maneuvered freely. did i mention the pack was of his own design? his own design god damn it! mccandless orbited earth in tangent with the shuttle at speeds greater than 17,500 miles per hour. did you catch that? 17,500 miles per hour! he flew about 320 feet away from the shuttle. wanna see? check this out. wow. evidently they don’t do untethered space walks anymore. safety and all that crap…. makes bruce a lucky guy huh? what the hell did you do today? i’m in the wrong line of work.