Brooker2023
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Brooker2023 |
| Author(s) | Phillip Brooker, Wes Sharrock |
| Title | Living and Working in “The Great Outdoors”: Astronautics as Everyday Work in NASA's Skylab Programme |
| Editor(s) | Juan Francisco Salazar, Alice Gorman |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Astronautics, NASA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 388–399 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003280507-36 |
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| Book title | The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space |
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Abstract
NASA’s post-Apollo vision, beginning with Skylab, aimed to develop space stations that would not only sustain human life but afford a large populace a means of living well and undertaking productive work—in short, to make space an everyday (social) setting. This chapter applies ethnomethodology/conversation analysis to audio of a Skylab EVA (extra-vehicular activity) to demonstrate how an extraordinary human endeavour—a spacewalk—comprises mundane and routine labour. Whilst Skylab’s exclusively scientific approach arguably failed to advance space as an everyday social environment, exploring its legacy data differently can teach us much about how to achieve those goals.
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