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ISS astronaut needs a wrench, NASA successfully 'emails' him one
cnet.com ^
| 19 December 2014 9:46 pm GMT
| Anthony Domanico
Posted on 12/19/2014 2:44:12 PM PST by BenLurkin
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station needed a socket wrench, so NASA engineers emailed him designs for 3D-printing one.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: 3dprinter; 3dprinting; email; iss; nasa; science; spaceexploration; technology; youvegotmail
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To: mlo
They didnt have a socket wrench on the space station? Really? Yes, but that set is SAE...
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posted on
12/19/2014 3:38:36 PM PST
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: tcrlaf
To: knarf
I have a flip phone simply because I like feeling like Captain Kirk when I
order pizza call for beam out.
CC
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posted on
12/19/2014 3:39:20 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
To: grobdriver
To: BenLurkin
Meh, I once faxed one of my technicians on a job that went over schedule some spare underwear, that was 15 years ago...
To: Sasparilla
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posted on
12/19/2014 3:49:31 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
To: mlo
Maybe they did and they broke it. (I know I have broken a few of ‘em.)
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posted on
12/19/2014 3:57:29 PM PST
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: BwanaNdege
I want a cell phone with all the latest gizmotech but looks and acts like the Star Trek Communicator, the FIRST flip phone.
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posted on
12/19/2014 3:57:50 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
BTW folks and fellow Freepers, that term ‘gizmotech’ is my own creation, so feel free to use it liberally, er, conservatively.
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posted on
12/19/2014 3:58:55 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
To: tcrlaf
"IF I had a choice, Id go back to my Motorola RAZR flip in a heartbeat. Damn near indestructible phone."
Still got mine, regardless of all the "upgrade" crap Verzon keeps hawking. No need to social network 24/7 like much of the world seems to.
I have always loved that i can pick it up and not turn on a half dozen thing accidently with the damn side buttons. If decent replacement batteries were available, and not hir or miss Chinese junk.......
To: lump in the melting pot
Meh, I once faxed one of my technicians on a job that went over schedule some spare underwear, that was 15 years ago...
Oh sure, but that was a brief endeavor by comparison. This isn't the kind of thing you just find in a set of drawers. In short quite different.
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:03:47 PM PST
by
Idaho_Cowboy
(Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
To: BenLurkin
Anyone remember the scene from "A Spaceman In King Arthur's Court". The astronaut has been captured and hauled before Arthur, Merlin et al, but he still has his helmet on, complete with gold plated visor.
Arthur & Co. think he's some sort of a insect.
"Let's cut it open and see what is inside."
"If I could get this helmet off, you would see that I'm a man. Does anyone here have a wrench?"
(Arthur to Merlin) "A WENCH? Well, as long as he doesn't do anything unseemly... Come here, wench!" (he commands to a passing servant girl.)
The astronaut has the girl hold his head/helmet in a headlock then rolls his body around, thereby unscrewing the helmet. The girl is left holding the "Head" (helmet) and faints.
Would you prefer the WENCH in RED
or the WRENCH in GREEN?
To: knarf; MeshugeMikey
it just never occured to me that the technology (and electrical capacity) was already available up there. I didn't know about it either. But, it is pretty recent: this story was published last month: The ISS gets its Zero-G 3D printer
This is apparently the company that built it: Made In Space. Their website says it was launched into orbit on 2014-09-21.
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:08:49 PM PST
by
justlurking
(tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
To: justlurking
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:21:24 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: doorgunner69; tcrlaf
I still have mine as well. No accidental pocket dials.
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:21:54 PM PST
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: mlo
They need a metric adjustable wrench.
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:28:52 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
To: mlo
I’ll bet the truth is he needed a socket of a specific size that had been lost. Reporters don’t get the facts very straight.
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:56:53 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
To: BenLurkin
History might someday see this as the first “star trek” type transport of an object from earth to space
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posted on
12/19/2014 5:26:38 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
To: BwanaNdege
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posted on
12/19/2014 5:54:34 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Fresh Wind
"They need a metric adjustable wrench."
AKA a Tijuana socket set.
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