Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: LAUNCH Message-ID: <927@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 20:20:10 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.927 Posted: Fri Feb 3 20:20:10 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 04:56:41 EST References: <2569@alice.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 8 Does anybody know how they are going to navigate this untethered spacewalk? Personally, I'd be scared stiff trying to shoot around in a jet pack in zero G with no ground to drag my feet on. Do the astronauts get real good at a spacewar video game, or is the whole thing controlled by a computer, or what? What happens if a jet pack fails or runs out of fuel while they're out on EVA? (The same thing that happens if the engine fails or runs out of fuel in an airplane, I guess.)