NASA doesn't allow the use of these free-flying devices any longer, so on the ISS they are always tethered. They do have a thruster pack for emergency use, but they are not allowed to 'fly' around. It seems like NASA is just trying to make it look like space is so dangerous that it takes lots of planning and rehearsals on their underwater mock-up models before they perform the actual EVA, and that may be sensible, but I think it is overdone.
Anyway, the EVA astronauts MUST have had a view of deep space at some point in their missions, and the stars should have been easily visible, but I can find no reports of them commenting on the stars, nor lectures or talks they have given, nor articles or books they may have written about their experiences on those EVAs, which would have to have included mention of the stars.
Steve Robinson is almost laying on his back here, looking out into space. He never mentioned stars either, or not that I have found so far anyway.
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