Amazing Photos from the Space Shuttle Discovery

Man Overboard
No, no one really fell out, but one of the scariest scenarios for astronauts during extravehicular activity (EVA)—or a spacewalk—is the possibility of going adrift with no tether and a malfunctioning jet pack. On this mission in Sept. 1994, astronaut Carl Meade tested a back-up jet pack intended to prevent that from happening. The picture was taken 130 nautical miles above Earth—a bad place to become a castaway.

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