Sentence examples for maneuvering units from inspiring English sources

Every astronaut at the International Space Station wears Safer, which is smaller and lighter than the manned maneuvering units, for use during an emergency.

In November of that same year, two STS-51A astronauts used their manned maneuvering units to retrieve two malfunctioning communications satellites, the Westar VI and Palapa B2.

The manned maneuvering units used by Captain McCandless and Colonel Stewart were not used again after 1984, as NASA decided to perform only tethered spacewalks for safety reasons.

That objective was carried out in April 1984, when two astronauts successfully repaired the Solar Max satellite while using manned maneuvering units.

Captain McCandless and Colonel Stewart used 300-pound nitrogen-propelled backpacks known as manned maneuvering units to make their way through space.

Mission 41-B, Feb 3 to 11 , 1984 tested the Manned Maneuvering Unit, or M.M.U., which is a small jet pack designed to be worn on an astronaut's back and enabling him to fly about in space by himself.

During the third orbit White emerged from the spacecraft, floated in space for about 20 minutes, and became the first person to propel himself in space with a maneuvering unit.

Science was learning about action and reaction while strapped to a frictionless (air-cushioned) mock-up of a manned maneuvering unit.

Kowalski, using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU), recovers Stone and they return to the Explorer.

Current NOAA Deputy Administrator Kathryn Sullivan makes the first spacewalk by an American woman, and George Nelson and James Oxx" van Hoften use Manned Maneuvering Unit jetpacks to do an untethered spacewalk.

Tactically, SAWs are either carried with a maneuvering unit and fired while handheld, or positioned to remain stationary and provide covering fire for other units.