ISS astronaut needs a wrench, NASA successfully 'emails' him one

cnet.com ^ | 19 December 2014 9:46 pm GMT | Anthony Domanico

[BenLurkin]

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station needed a socket wrench, so NASA engineers emailed him designs for 3D-printing one.

[knarf]

the possibilities are endless !

[dontreadthis]

ISIS astronauts! part of NASA outreach?

[Sasparilla]

Its the ISS replicator. When will it make gourmet meals and fine wine?

[South40]

3D printed wrenches are quite common and can be purchased on eBay.

[Crazieman]

Tea. Earl grey. Hot.

[SaveFerris]

Now we can email him and ask if he'd like to:

1) Earn a college degree online!
2) Refinance his mortgage and save hundreds per month!
3) Purchase Canadian pharmaceuticals at discount prices!

[knarf]

See ?

That's what scares me

A phenomenal technology is treated so casually ...

Yeah, y'kin get it on e-bay

(spoiler alert ... not from outer space)

/8^) ..... Merry Christmas

[KarlInOhio]

Tea. Earl grey. Hot.

Sorry, but Sirius Cybernetic Corporation had the lowest bid so the ISS has their Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser and everyone will get a drink that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

[South40]

I don't necessarily agree the "phenomenal technology" is taken so casually simply because it is available to any eBay shopper with $5.

It's just a piece of plastic. :-P

[MeshugeMikey]

this......out earth....sort of procedure....had remained completely off my radar...until this moment.

this IS exciting!

[knarf]

You’re talkin’ to a guy that loves his flip phone and will not ever get one of those mini-TV’s

[knarf]

Me too ... it just never occured to me that the technology (and electrical capacity) was already available up there.

[mlo]

They didn’t have a socket wrench on the space station? Really?

[MeshugeMikey]

and its amazing.....the mooselim outreach had Nothing to do with it

[tcrlaf]

“You’re talkin’ to a guy that loves his flip phone and will not ever get one of those mini-TV’s”

IF I had a choice, I’d go back to my Motorola RAZR flip in a heartbeat. Damn near indestructible phone.

[BwanaNdege]

Sorry, but Sirius Cybernetic Corporation had the lowest bid so the ISS has their Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser and everyone will get a drink that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

If the ISS astronauts had remembered their towels, everything would have been OK!

[JPG]

Sorry, it's no good, it's left-handed.

[Crazieman]

Ahh yeah, that bad boy took a lot of abuse. Had one too.

These phones... breathe too hard and the screen cracks.

Need sapphire glass on all parts of the phone.

[colorado tanker]

Something tells me if that had been Captain James Tiberius Kirk, the order would have been: Scotch, Macallan, neat.