Our Explorers

On the very same footsteps of Polo, Mallegan, Colon, Vasco de Gama, Cook and many others, our explorers of today share the same hunger for discovery.



At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space walk" during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984.