Mathias’s spacewalk equipment
August 29, 2008 · Print This Article
In the Season 4 episode, “The Road Less Traveled“, Sergeant Erin Mathias performs a spacewalk of a damaged Heavy Raider from a Cylon rebel faction. As she does so, we see her scaling the hull of the ship with magnetic hand holds, attached by a tether line that hooks into a buckle on her spacesuit’s belt.
Mathias using the handholds.
Mathias's spacewalk, note the tether in the upper right hand corner.
Now the actual prop itself is made from rubber and metal materials, with small magnets on the “bottom” of the prop that aid in the illusion of magnetism. The magnets themselves are obviously not strong enough to attach to anything and bear the weight of a person in tandem, so for those people who buy this prop… don’t hang off the side of a truck and try that Hollywood stuff. You’ll just end up injured. Or dead, like Mathias.
Handholds with retractable tether and buckle.
The belt where the tether buckles in to. The buckle is on the top, just opposite of the black patch you see in the picture.
The buckle in question, with the piece from the tether line already inserted. (This is another piece that happened to be in the belt at the time the reference picture was taken.)
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