Just think about that-- 665 cumulative days. She's had more space walk time than any woman in this world, and her fellow astronauts affectionately call her the space ninja. As you think of questions throughout this conversation-- and we hope you will-- please be sure to add them to the live chat on the right.
So that's the 5% that we're losing. This is us tearing apart a space suit that I'm going to do a space walk in about a month later. And so the maintenance that we're doing, knowing that I'm working on my space suit that I'm about to do a space walk in,
a little more than that percent, but around that area. And by the time the young ladies did the space walk together, the percentage is now up to 35% to 40% of the office is female. You're going to see these things a little bit more often.
That's great. Yeah. And can we talk for a second about the space suits? So is it true that the first female space-- all-female space walk was scrapped because the suits didn't fit? Have they solved that problem now?
This is why NASA actually puts all of their astronauts through a lot of rigorous underwater testing. And before you can even go out of the International Space Station to do a space walk , you will spend hours-- hundreds of hours underwater at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at the Johnson Space Center operating and kind of fixing or doing whatever it is you have to do on that EVA
The, once we get up there one of the first things we do is we open up the payload bay doors. We do that because the radiators are on the inside portion of the payload bay doors; And of course the next day is our first space walk . The first space walk was conducted by Danny Olivas and Nicole Stott.
We have people who work in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a big swimming pool. I had met one woman who was heat ceiling the inner bladder of a space suit that you do a space walk in.
The, once we get up there one of the first things we do is we open up the payload bay doors. We do that because the radiators are on the inside portion of the payload bay doors; gonna be keeping them alive. That's their space ship once they do their space walk .
The, once we get up there one of the first things we do is we open up the payload bay doors. We do that because the radiators are on the inside portion of the payload bay doors; And then we clean up the suits and get 'em ready for the next space walk 'cause they conducted a total of three-three space walks. Between three of the astronauts, Nicole, Danny
So this idea of representation is mentioned a lot. And in recent years, we've had the first all-female space walk , and we now have the first female launch director at NASA, Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, who will be the first person-- she'll be the person to help launch a woman to the moon.
And at the time when that they were going to originally do the two female space walks, they had only configured one medium torso and one large torso configured two medium torsos, so that they could do the space walk with the two ladies. So it's possible to do.
This is us tearing apart a space suit that I'm going to do a space walk in about a month later. And so the maintenance that we're doing, knowing that I'm working on my space suit that I'm about to do a space walk in, was absolutely terrifying. There was no way that I should be pulling pumps out of this thing and changing them.
I was talking to somebody at NASA last week and learned that it has been downloaded onto the International Space Station. Which is fascinating, but I guess if you're out on a space walk , you really want to be getting along with the guy who lets you back in, right? I also met a woman recently who uses it to teach Argentinian tango, which has very subtle signaling apparently between the two partners.
The, once we get up there one of the first things we do is we open up the payload bay doors. We do that because the radiators are on the inside portion of the payload bay doors; But-but it's certainly a-a long process. It's about seven hours during a space walk .
We have people who work in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a big swimming pool. They're divers basically, but they're help-- they're technical experts in helping you learn how to do a space walk .
It's a long day activity getting ready to get out the door. And then when we go outside, we stay out for about 6 and 1/2 hours is the typical planned time for a space walk . It's a very challenging environment to work in.
Is there some type of pull that they have in particular? There were a few physics issues with "Gravity," but the thing that struck me most was that when Sandra Bullock gets back inside that spacecraft after her space walk
The, once we get up there one of the first things we do is we open up the payload bay doors. We do that because the radiators are on the inside portion of the payload bay doors; unidentified voice: Jose Hernandez: And we do have some cameras outside where, that we control and we see this through cameras. You can see Danny coming out and initiating the space walk . They always