Lego used to repair international space station

[SheepEater]

http://www.tu.no/industri/2012/06/03/reparerte-romstasjon-med-lego

Text is in Norwegian.

I credit 'helge' for this find, who posted this on the BrickLink forums.

Gotta love those classic technic bricks!

Edited August 24, 2012 by SheepEater

[Rook]

Ah! Duct tape on Lego! Seriously I thought these scientists types were suppose to be smarter than that. Well at least they didn't use glue.

[L@go]

I'll provide a quick translation, so you won't have to resort to Google:

LEGO BUILDER ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS)

Space station repaired by using Lego

LEGO-FIX: Here's a way to use Lego on a space station. Photo: Don Pettit/NASA

The American astronaut Don Pettit writes on his Google+ page that he has repaired a valve in the space station's CO2 cleaning system by using Lego.

"I used some of the space station's Lego to keep the parts of the valve together in the right order while I did the repair," writes Pettit.

In a picture from the space station, shown above, you can se some sort of Lego tool mounted to the wall with duct tape.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a science project lasting for several years, which has been orbiting the Earth at a distance of approximately 400 kilometres since the year 2000.

ASTRONAUT: The experienced engineer has been on board the ISS since December 2011. Photo: NASA

In 2010, NASA and Lego started cooperating to increase the interest for mathematics and natural science among school children.

While astronauts build Lego on the space station, school children visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Florida get the opportunity to build futuristic models of space ships.

One small step for humanity - a giant leap for Lego builders!

[simonjedi]

This sentence makes so happy

"I used some of the space station's Lego"

I love the mental image of a huge box of lego floating around the ISS,

[Spider-Man]

I was just going to say the same thing! I like how he said it like it should just be a common thing to have on a space station!