This answer links to https://history.nasa.gov/spacesuits.pdf which shows the image below. (fyi Wikipedia's STS-61 is not to be confused with STS-61A, STS-61B or STS-61C, see answers to Why so many STS-61's?).
STS-61B saw the Experimental Assembly of Structures in EVA and the Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures, or EASE/ACCESS. The results section of that article says:
Applied moments of inertia during EVA were found to be on the order of 2.0 newton meters (1.5 lbf⋅ft). In neutral buoyancy simulation, the applied moments of inertia were around five times greater than those during EVA.1 Assembly time during EVA was around 20% less than in neutral buoyancy simulation. The learning curve was on the order of 78%, and was unaffected by the strength, coordination, or size of the astronaut, or the fit of the space suit.[5] In both environments, moments of inertia were applied as short impulses, interspersed by several seconds of coasting.
While torque can have units of lbf⋅ft, the corresponding units of moment of inertia would be lbf ft s².
So in the context of STS-61B's EASE/ACCESS, are "applied moments of inertia" really "astronaut-applied torques"? Or are they actually moments of inertia?
Astronaut Sherwood C. Spring wears the EMU while checking joints on a tower extending from the Space Shuttle Atlantis cargo bay during mission STS 61 -B. He is standing on the end of the arm of the remote manipulator system connected to the space shuttle.
