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I'm doing some research over Summer 2019 on NASA's Skylab 3 mission - infamous for being (allegedly) the first and only strike in space. So here's a work-in-progress podcast mini-series that'll capture where I'm currently up to and where I'm going next. Anyone who's interested in things like Science…

Phillip Brooker


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    BONUS EP: Bricolage in Astronautics: Talk-in-Interaction in the Construction of Apollo 13's DIY CO2 Scrubber

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 44:17


    A bonus episode to kick off Season 2 of Skylab: Living and Working in Space. This episode gives an account of a book chapter I have written with Wes Sharrock (title given in the title of this episode) which will be published in 2023 as part of a collection edited by Michael Lynch and Oskar Lindwall called "Instruct and Instructive Actions: The Situated Production, Reproduction, and Subversion of Social Order". The transcripts referred to in the episode can be found at: https://github.com/phillipbrooker/Apollo13_Bricolage If you want to talk about this research and anything Skylab/ethnomethodology/sociology then please do get in touch (though I'm not on Twitter all that much lately, so the other lines are preferred and please don't expect an immediate response on Twitter)! Email: p[dot]d[dot]brooker[at]liverpool[dot]ac[dot]uk Twitter: @pdbrooker Mastodon: @pdbrooker@mastodon.online

    Skylab: Living and Working in Space (Season 2 Trailer)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2022 8:32


    I'm refreshing the world's premier Ethnomethodological-Study-of-Skylab podcast for a long-awaited (...maybe...) Season 2! This trailer gives a taster of what's to come. Below are some publications/talks in varying stages of completion which at least partly reflect the work I've been doing between the last podcast episode and now (get in touch on the details below if you want copies/to talk more): ----------------------------------------- Brooker P (forthcoming) Living and Working in Space: An Ethnomethodological Study of Skylab. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Brooker P, P Castaño and E Le Moignan (2021) Living and working in space: Expanding the human factors framework. The Sociological Review Blog. Available at: https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/living-and-working-in-space-expanding-the-human-factors-framework/ (accessed: 22/04/2021). Brooker P and E Le Moignan (2021) Living and working in space: Lessons (not) learned from NASA's Skylab. Open Lab Talks. Newcastle, UK, September 23. Brooker P and E Le Moignan (2022) Skylab 2049: Exploring the mundane realities of living and working on a space station, Ethnographies of Outer Space: Methodological Opportunities and Experiments. Trento, Italy, September 1-2 2022. Brooker P and W Sharrock (forthcoming) Bricolage in astronautics: Talk-in-interaction in the construction of Apollo 13's DIY CO2 scrubber, in M Lynch and O Lindwall (eds) Instructed and Instructive Actions. London: Routledge. Brooker P and W Sharrock (forthcoming) Living and working in "the great outdoors": Astronautics as everyday work, in JF Salazar and A Gorman (eds) Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space. London: Routledge. ----------------------------------------- Get in touch with me on Mastodon (@pdbrooker@mastodon.online), Twitter (@pdbrooker) or via email at: p[dot]d[dot]brooker[at]liverpool[dot]ac[dot]uk

    EP9, Skylab 3: Everyday Astronautics (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2020 56:00


    The ninth in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. This episode gets under the hood of a fairly short audio clip from Jerry Carr and Ed Gibson's EVA (i.e. spacewalk) of the 29th December 1973, that covers their observations of the much-vaunted (at the time) Comet Kohoutek. If you want to follow along with the audio and transcripts, go to the following link to find the audio excerpt on which this episode is based: https://soundcloud.com/phillip-brooker/skylab-eva-excerpt-2-29121973 The original audio files, which give full coverage of all Skylab EVAs and more, can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Skylab4 Please contact me directly for access to the relevant transcript excerpts, either on Twitter (@pdbrooker) or via email at: p[dot]d[dot]brooker[at]liverpool[dot]ac[dot]uk

    EP8, Skylab 3: Everyday Astronautics

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2020 51:51


    The eighth in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. This episode gets under the hood of a 16-minute audio clip from Jerry Carr and Ed Gibson's EVA (i.e. spacewalk) of the 29th December 1973, to see if we can get some kind of understanding of positioning and using cameras to take pictures of the Sun in, as Gibson puts it, "The Great Outdoors". If you want to follow along with the audio and transcripts, go to the following link to find the audio excerpt on which this episode is based: https://soundcloud.com/phillip-brooker/skylab-eva-excerpt29121973 The original audio files, which give full coverage of all Skylab EVAs and more, can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Skylab4 Please contact me directly for access to the relevant transcript excerpts, either on Twitter (@pdbrooker) or via email at: p[dot]d[dot]brooker[at]liverpool[dot]ac[dot]uk

    EP7, Skylab 3: ASOS...IN SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!! (Part Five: The Roundup)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2020 39:50


    The seventh in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. This episode is wraps up an initial analysis of the mission's conversation transcripts covering the five days of the alleged "strike" period of the mission. Some of the central themes of the events of these days are brought out in relation the current context of the UK Higher Education system (where Skylab stands as an uncomfortable allegory to be faced in light of the recent and forthcoming periods of widespread industrial action). I repeatedly refer to this episode as a long one...but it's actually not ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Whatevs, hope you like it, and onto the next phase of the project!

    EP6, Skylab 3: ASOS...IN SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!! (Part Four)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2019 60:16


    The sixth in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. This episode is about an initial analysis of the mission's conversation transcripts covering the 30th December 1973; the fifth of five days of the alleged "strike" period of the mission.

    EP5, Skylab 3: ASOS...IN SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!! (Part Three)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2019 35:43


    The fifth in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. This episode is about an initial analysis of the mission's conversation transcripts covering the 29th December 1973; the fourth of five days of the alleged "strike" period of the mission.

    EP4, Skylab 3: ASOS...IN SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!! (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2019 41:43


    The fourth in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. This episode is about an initial analysis of the mission's conversation transcripts covering the 28th December 1973; the third of five days of the alleged "strike" period of the mission.

    EP3, Skylab 3: ASOS...IN SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!! (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2019 76:34


    The third in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. This episode is about an initial analysis of the mission's conversation transcripts covering the 26th and 27th December 1973; the first two days of the alleged "strike" period on the mission.

    EP2a, Skylab 3: Addendum

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2019 5:32


    Addendum to Episode 2 - all part of the fun of doing a work-in-progress!

    EP2, Skylab 3: Skylab as a Documented Phenomenon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2019 56:17


    The second in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission, on the various bits and bobs of documents I've found that sit around the Skylab 3 mission, and the role of them as "evidence" of one thing or another.

    EP1, Skylab 3: Living and Working in Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2019 30:01


    The first in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab 3 mission. An introduction to two interrelated projects - 1) ASOS...in SPAAAAACCEEEE!!!! and 2) MSIS: A Workplace Study of Space - spinning out of some materials I got my hands on. The production values are kind of shonky because I'm doing these on the fly on my phone, pacing round the living room and shuffling my papers (because that's how I roll). But it'll do, right?

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