This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

Stunning photos from NASA ’s first untethered spacewalk have been released - as ... stepped out of his shuttle Challenger on February 7, 1984. Previous spacewalks had been completed using ...

Since cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk in 1984, women have participated in 42 spacewalks. Of the 15 women who have done spacewalks, 14 have been NASA astronauts.

They pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles above Earth, higher than the International Space ...