Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 118, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer,

The Space Walks.

I'm Gary Jordan.

I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers,

astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

Coming up very soon this November 2019, astronauts aboard the International

Space Station are set to kick off a unique and difficult

set of spacewalks to repair an experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

Sounds like something straight out of sci-fi, right?

But it's very real and a very complicated piece of equipment.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, is collecting data from high energy particles

and looking for evidence of antimatter and dark matter in the

cosmos, which may reveal more about the formation of the universe.

Now with such a complicated particle physics experiment

comes some complicated spacewalks, where

astronauts get in their spacesuits and go outside of a spacecraft and in this case for the

International Space Station to go through a well-fought out and planned procedures with special tools to fix things.

So to help bring to light the significance of this experiment and these spacewalks,

we're going to dive deep into the story of the AMS and this repair, and break this into three parts, the science, the space walks, and the tools, all with

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