June 2018
Striding through space
...night-time pass and floodlit television coverage showed it all clearly as a flashing beacon activated on top of the MMU. A few seconds after he sallied forth, McCandless commented on his extraordinary situation, the first spacewalker without a safety...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... payload data and most other operational data is organised and stored in files in the Mass Memory Unit (MMU) on-board. Because there is no need to cut science data into telemetry packets (and to reconstruct and consolidate them...
01 January 2020
Virginia Air & Space Center
...of NASA Langley. It’s a famous painting, with which many space fans will be familiar, and features an astronaut in an MMU apparently rocketing into the cosmos, surrounded by aircraft, spacecraft, Langley’s historic wind tunnel and astronauts visiting...
