NASA sent a screwdriver via e-mail to the International Space Station

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NASA sent a screwdriver "e-mail" to the International Space Station

12/21/2014 13:25:00

Resorted astronauts in the International Space Station to use Tabathm three-dimensional design Screws key of the instructions that were sent to them via e-mail.
This is the first time being the Send Tools "e-mail" into space.
The US space agency NASA has responded to the request made ​​by the International Space Station Commander Barry Wilmore designserrated key is used to connect the screws head cap.
When the astronauts in the past asking for a specific tool from the tools they need, it was possible for them to wait for months until being sent to them on trips supplies coming.
For his part, Mike Chen, the founder of "Made in Space" Her printer is three-dimensional, said: "We heard Barry Wilmore station commander over the radio saying he needed to that tool, so we have designed a one-through design computer programs to assist and we sent him faster than any missile can Delivery of the tool. "
other designs
was Wilmore has proven printer aboard the station on the seventeenth of November. In the twenty-fifth of the same month, Wilmore succeeded in the first tool produced by the printer design, a piece parts in the printer itself.
According to NASA that this new capability will help Roa space to rely on themselves more in the future tasks that take a long time in space.
Qin added "This represents the end of the first experience of our key, a series of 21 design printed for the first tools we have designed outside the circumference of the earth at all."
The rest of those printed designs have been designed by the printer Shipping three-dimensional to the ISS in September / September on a flight supply of space, "SpaceX Dragon". PUKmedia for BBC

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