From a human to the cosmos
Scale of the Universe
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An Astronaut · ~2 m
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100.4 m
An Astronaut
~2 m
Bruce McCandless drifting untethered above Earth in 1984 — the first free-flying spacewalk in history.
Images: NASA · ESO · Pablo Carlos Budassi (Wikimedia Commons)