Most magazines, when celebrating NASA's 50 years, showed McCandless on his jetpack, in the void of space.
However, the MMU didn't last longer than 1984....
But it was the picture that journalists thought the most defining of the 50 years !!
Because it showed how far humans have gone, free from everything.
When I was 15, my first english SF book was this one:
I bought it, not for the story, but for the frontpage picture...I never finished the book (too complicated)
A spacesuited human being IS the most inspiring thing the space community can offer, I believe!
This is why I want astronauts back on the Moon, walking in 1/6th G, with Earth in the far background!
It would show how far we can go!
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