When astronaut Barry Wilmore realized he needed a socket wrench, he had one problem. Wilmore is currently on board the International Space Station orbiting 200 miles above the earth making a trip to ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) --Astronauts on the International Space Station have a new socket wrench. But it didn't come via cargo ship. It was emailed from planet Earth -- beamed up into space and then ...

A couple of weeks ago, engineers at Made In Space overheard International Space Station Commander, Barry Wilmore, mention that his crew needed a new ratcheting socket wrench on board the ISS. Normally ...

Talk about throwing a wrench into the works. Responding to International Space Station (ISS) astronauts’ need for a wrench, NASA solved the problem by emailing a digital file to the ISS. The ...

LONG BEACH, CALIF. — There’s a major supply chain issue in space. It costs $10,000 per kilogram to blast something into orbit; a liter of water in space costs $10,000. In fact, only 2% of what NASA ...

Click to open image viewer. Various small hand tools are carried aboard the Space Shuttle for basic operational and repair tasks. Some of the tools are custom-made for particular tasks, and some, like ...

For the first time ever, hardware designed on the ground has been emailed to space to meet the needs of an astronaut. From a computer in California, Mike Chen of Made In Space and colleagues just ...