Skylab: Living and Working in Space

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

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

The ninth in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab programme, and particularly the Skylab-4 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://github.com/phillipbrooker/TheGreatOutdoors 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

The eighth in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab programme, and particularly the Skylab-4 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://github.com/phillipbrooker/TheGreatOutdoors 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

The seventh in a mini-series on a work-in-progress research project on NASA's Skylab programme, and particularly the Skylab-4 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!