Roach in the first chapter starts off with how enter a Japanese home, have to talk off your shoes and put slippers on that had JAXA. They are in isolation chambers and there are many candidates in the end they will need up picking only two out of the group. In these isolation chambers they are watched on camera twenty four seven. Roach states that with a one on one interview you can find out about someone but when you watch them on video you really find the truth out about the person and how they are. When they get there container of food they unpack it and everyone is scared to be the first one to take a bite of there food. But when they are all finished there container and dishes are inspected. Which I thought was really weird but it is something new that I learned. In the end of the chapter two people are picked and the rest are sent off to NASA.
I thought this chapter was very interesting because I never knew what you had to do to become and astronaut. Some of the things they do is very interesting. Now I have learned what you have to first go through.
This was a good chapter to write a post about. The first thing that caught my attention was in order to enter a Japanese home, shoes are taken off and replaced with slippers. In this example, we see how cultures are different (even in NASA). Another important factor you brought up in your post is they recorded and interviewed the participants when in the isolation chambers. I think this is important because as NASA, we need to identify who can work under pressure, yet have the skills needed to work as a group when in a smaller and packed environment. Do you think NASA relates to the participants that are being chosen? If you were an astronaut what would you dislike most about the job?
ReplyDeleteI like how you started off by saying about entering into a Japanese home and the differences there are in lifestyles. We all come from different walks of life. But the most interesting part about this chapter for me was the way that they did there interviewing. I think it's very smart for them to be put in isolation chambers because it's not hard for some people to be able to just pass an interview. But that’s not going to tell you anything about how they are going to act in an isolated situation. They are able to see firsthand how they are going to react in this situation rather than them be up in space and a situation arise.
ReplyDeleteI also summarized chapter 1. I didn't know all it took to be an astronaut either. The thing that really stuck out with me is how all ten candidates had to live together in a cramped location. I knew that spaceships had limited but I guess didn't think of it as in depth as I did after reading this chapter. Astronauts really do go through a lot to get to position to where they can actually and sometimes they don't even get the chance. the fact that the process is hard and knowing that you may not ever fly
ReplyDeletetells me that if you're in that line of work it's something they're very committed to.
I know it takes a lot of time and patience to become an astronaut, but I did not know the tiny details involved. I like the idea of the isolation pods since it is a little like what it will be in space, minus all the dangers of motion sickness and machine malfunctions. Being an astronaut takes a lot of memorizing procedures and etiquette to other members to make the tension as low as possible. Learning the etiquette of Japanese culture is a great way to open the book as living as an astronaut is all about respecting other's cultures and beliefs.
ReplyDeleteThis chapter had a great deal of information in it. Starting with a little background on Japanese culture. It appealed to me from the very start as it reminded me of last summer when my son studied abroad in Japan. Much of what he shared with us when he came home about the culture was familiar to me when reading this.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize that astronaut jobs were split into two types, pilots who run the controls and mission specialists who do the repairs, science experiments and launch satellites. Space travel in general isn't something I have read up on very much. An interesting thought I took from this chapter was only 1% of astronaut's career is in a space suit!