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Astronauts Lost Tools in Space, Forced to Improvise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lost-in-time-lost-in-space...and-meaning dept.

Ant writes "Neatorama and Popular Science share a CNN story about Russian astronauts repairing the International Space Station (ISS) with improvised tools because they lost the real ones. How? 'It's a lot like your house,' said Paul Boehm, lead spacewalk officer. 'You set your car keys down somewhere and hopefully you find them again later when you try to remember it.' Uh, yeah, but we're idiots -- you're astronauts. Nonetheless, nice to see the Do It Yourself (DIY) spirit at work in space."

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  1. Re:Off topic but, by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Informative
    Everything here looks totally dicked up with Konqueror

    Here in Konqueror 3.3.0-8 it looks much the same as it does in Firefox.

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  2. Re:My Favourite by ZSpade · · Score: 2, Informative

    What was that fender comment all about? You know...

    Wikipedia - A fender is a portion of an automobile body that frames a wheel well. In British English the fender is called the wing. Usually a passenger automobile will have four fenders, with one over each wheel well.

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    Go ahead and call me unreliable; reliable is just a synonym for predictable.
  3. Re:DIY is part of the space program by MSFanBoi2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually Yeager broke some ribs, not his arm...