NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 2009 US Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday, May 2, at 3 pm EDT.

The first man to fly freely and untethered in space, famously photographed alone in the cosmic blackness above a blue Earth, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The first man to fly freely and untethered in space, famously photographed alone in the cosmic blackness above a blue Earth, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Retired astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first so-called human satellite in 1984.

Whenever astronauts leave the space shuttle, they have to put on an EMU (Extravehicular Mobility Unit), better known to us as a space suit.The EMU provides the astronaut with air, controls the temperature and even has a waste supply system (toilet).

NASA -- It’s a science fiction movie nightmare situation. An astronaut is working outside his spacecraft in the vacuum of space when something happens—his tether breaks, a satellite hits him, or an evil computer pushes him away from the ship. However it happens, the end result is the same.