Friday, December 19, 2014

Astronaut prints 3-D wrench in space

This week, thanks to 3-D printing, astronaut and ISS Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore, had a wrench he needed manufactured by a printer in just four hours. The ratcheting socket wrench was the first "uplink tool" printed in space, meaning it was designed on the ground, e-mailed to the space station and then manufactured in space.





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