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In January 2022, an image supposedly showing astronaut Bruce McCandless II floating untethered in space was widely circulated on social media. While McCandless II was a real astronaut, and while he truly did perform the first untethered spacewalk, the above-displayed image has been digitally edited. The above-displayed image has been circulating online since at least 2009 when it was posted to Flickr Tianxiao Zhang. That post was accompanied by a caption explaining that this was a composite image. The top half features a picture of McCandless' spacewalk, while the bottom half comes from a second photograph of an anonymous mountain range: Zhang told USA Today that he honestly never thought anyone would think this [image] is real. A comparison of Zhang's composite image (left) and the original photo from NASA (right) can be seen at the top of this article. Here's the original photograph from NASA: McCandless became the first person to perform an untethered space walk in 1984 when he traveled about 100 meters away from the space shuttle Challenger. NASA writes: Here's a video of McCandless from NASA:
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