Season 7, Episode 24: Tool-Thousand One: A Space Odyssey (1998)

Title: Tool-Thousand-One: A Space Odyssey

Season, Episode: Season 7, Episode 24

Broadcast date: May 12, 1998

Starring: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, and Debbe Dunning

Guest Starring: Randy Thompson, Harry S. Murphy, Ken Bowersox, Steve Hawley, Jeff Steck

Directed by: Peter Bonerz

Written by: Bruce Ferber, Lloyd Garver

This podcast episode was originally released: May 26, 2022

Episode Synopsis:
NASA astronaut and frequent Tool Time guest Ken Bowersox comes on the show to announce that NASA will be using a Binford tool on the next shuttle mission. Better yet, one lucky Binford employee will be chosen to go into space to operate the tool. Tim and Al both head to Houston for astronaut training in hopes of being picked for the mission. But when Tim learns that Mark is going through some tough times back in Detroit, he decides to quit the space race so he can be there for his son.

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