In this episode we talk about extra-vehicular activities, also known as spacewalking, with former astronaut Tom Jones. In the episode we cover the underwater training in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, we talk about the preparation of the space walk in the shuttle, and of course we discuss the spacewalking itself. In particular, we talk about Tom’s participation in the STS-98 spacewalks that installed the Destiny lab onto the ISS.

• Tom Jones’ Website
• Tom Jones (WP)
• Book: Skywalking – Tom Jones’ Memoir
• Book: Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System
• Book: Hell Hawks
• STS-98 (Destiny Installation) (WP)
• Apollo program (WP)
• Space Shuttle program (WP)
• Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (WP)
• NASA – Destiny Laboratory
• Destiny Laboratory (WP)
• Space Shuttle Atlantis (WP)
• Canadarm (WP)
• Dextre (WP)
• Robonaut: Home
• Robonaut (WP)
• NASA – Neutral Buoyancy Lab
• Neutral Buoyancy Lab (WP)
• Reduced gravity aircraft (WP)
• Hypobaric chamber (WP)
• Franklin Chang Díaz (WP)
• Partial pressure (WP)
• Heat exchanger (WP)
• Cosmic ray (WP)
• SAFER Device
• Manned Maneuvering Unit (WP)
• Airlock (WP)
• Story Musgrave (WP)
• Robert Curbeam (WP)
• Marsha Ivins (WP)

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