Nasa, Astronauts, International Space Station and a Toothbrush
Published by A vital power unit of the International Space Station was successfully changed by Indian-American Astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleagues from Japan using tools mad out of mere ‘TOOTHBRUSH’.
NASA, Astronauts, International Space Station and a Toothbrush
A vital power unit of the International Space Station was successfully changed by Indian-American Astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleagues from Japan using tools mad out of mere ‘TOOTHBRUSH’.
It took an 8-hour long process and trouble to clean a blot of the power unit for Sunita Williams and Akihito Hoshide this past week. NASA engineers had this all planned in a session before the spacewalk to mend the International Space Station. It seems that an electrical unit was tending to be replaced, but it couldn’t be bolted out the space station. The stuck bolt took the extra spacewalk from the duo, thus posing a problem to install the ‘MSBUs’ electrical unit on 30th August 2012.
International Space Station has four such 100-kilograms MSBUs unit, which absorb solar energy and transmit it all over the orbiting complex. Two of the eight such power grids had malfunctioned. So the duo of Sunita Williams and Akihito Hoshide first removed off the damaged unit and then first tying it to a tender, undid the problem caused by the bolt, rectified it and then installed the new power transmitting grid.
After their 8-hour spacewalk success, Astronaut Jack Fischer radioed from the NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, “Looks like you guys just fixed the Station.” Good job indeed by Sunita Williams and Akihito Hoshide.
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On September 6, 2012 at 7:17 pm
thanks for the interesting share
On September 6, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Well done thank you for sharing.
On September 6, 2012 at 7:40 pm
I hope at least they used an electric toothbrush
I bet it’d go faster.
On September 6, 2012 at 7:45 pm
How fascinating that they were able to work on this amazing piece of modern technology with such a simple thing.
On September 6, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Amazing what a toothbrush can really do. They have been used for cleaning and scouring but his is amazing. Great images too.
On September 6, 2012 at 9:30 pm
Wow, toothbrush becomes part now of astronomical history..:) Great article.
On September 7, 2012 at 12:37 am
Toothbrush power! Haha..
On September 7, 2012 at 4:52 am
That’s it. Every time you brush your teeth think of the power that thing holds in helping a space station! Thanks for the interesting, very entertaining may I add, share.
On September 7, 2012 at 3:28 pm
I just love astronomy. nice article
On September 8, 2012 at 7:12 am
brilliant display of knowledge Thanks for sharing.
On September 9, 2012 at 11:23 am
Lovely article.
You are such a loyal viewer/commenter. I just wanted to return the favor ~!
On September 17, 2012 at 7:46 am
A great share here friend!