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Float Free
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At first glance this image defies belief,
excepting perhaps in a dream
where there is no rule for any motif
and seldom are things as they seem.
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Zooming in one finds a free floating man,
or woman perhaps, out in space
in suit befitting such quixotic plan
of starry-eyed regions to pace.
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An ‘untethered space walk’ it’s been labeled,
this saunter into the beyonds,
but suppose the way back were disabled
and one lost all familiar bonds
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then rather than being intriguing roam
such venturing forth to unknowns
might make yearnings pivot to home sweet home
and our oh so accustomed zones.
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At any rate let’s assume things are fine
in this scenario fictive
that all’s well that ends well along that line
for our narration descriptive.
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Thence thus may I float to my heart’s content
adrift in an infinite world
where e’er shall my vast wayfaring present
new phantasmagorias swirled…
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Oh glorious cosmos, endless immense,
might yet you awaken enlightened sense?
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~ Harley White
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Inspiration derived from the following…
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Manned Maneuvering Unit (Wikipedia)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Maneuvering_Unit
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To Fly Free in Space (APOD)…
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200209.html
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Explanation: What would it be like to fly free in space? At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was living the dream -- floating farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an “untethered space walk” during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. The MMU worked by shooting jets of nitrogen and was used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit. The MMU was later replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit.
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Image Credit: NASA, STS-41B
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