Bruce McCANDLESS

Background

McCANDLESS, Bruce was born on June 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of the late Rear-Admiral Bruce McCandless and late Mistress Sue Worthington Bradley McCandless Inman.

Education

United States Naval Academy, and Stanford University.

Career

Instructor, Attack Squadron 43, Naval Air Station, Apollo Soucek Field, Oceana, Virginia. Graduate studies in electrical engineering, Stanford University until 1966. Selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration as astronaut April 1966.

Company-investigator Astronaut Manoeuvring Unit Experiment on Skylab 1968-1974.

Backup crew for first Skylab Mission 1973. Mission Specialist on STS-11. first flight of manned manoeuvring unit

Mission Specialist on STS-31, Hubble Space Telescope deployment. Retd, from Navy as Captain August 1990.

Presently Acting Chief Engineering, Martin Marietta Austronautics Group.

Interests

• Electronics, scuba diving, sailing, photography.

Connections

Married Bernice Doyle in 1960.

Father:

the late Rear-Admiral Bruce McCandless

Mother:

late Mistress Sue Worthington Bradley McCandless Inman

Spouse:

Bernice Doyle