Space to Ground: The ISS Toolbox: May 17, 2024

[Music] this is the space station toolbx it's got five drawers and it's one of my favorite things on Space Station but before we talk about the tools it's important to talk about how you get here and Expedition 70 crew members Jasmine and Laurel taught me that just just part of big on Space Station one must power slide in to get to the toolbox mainly cuz it's fun it's just it's just cuz you can but uh anyway go quickly go through the toolbox I have many tools at home they're spread all over the place in my garage and they're not quite as compact the the tool density here makes me so happy the layout makes me so happy and uh maybe for for home hobbyists people who like to Tinker around in the garage maybe this tool density uh makes you happy as well but uh Jo number one uh lots of cool crescent wrenches uh stay wrenches here uh one of the favorite things I learned about a few years ago was the crows foot uh you can check that out uh using um it's great for getting behind type spaces on Space Station but lots of Cool Tools here uh super convenient to get the tools when you you need them for a task in fact you know when we're given a procedure on Space Station the first thing you get is the list of all the tools you're going to need and so typically you start a task on Space Station you you power slide in to the toolbox and you come grab what you need out of these nice little neatly aligned of places the/ qu in the 3/8 in Drive our torque wrenches uh everything you really need to to fix a space station uh drawer number three or screwdrivers I you know I look at this thing most times I go into drawer number three and wonder when do I get when do I get to use this like look at the size of this thing this is a 2 and 1/2 in one day one day maybe they'll let me use that uh screwdrivers big torque wrench in there [Applause] uh our pliers actually this this tool here I've seen used a fair bit uh we have lots of uh round electrical connectors on space station and uh this is good for getting a grid grip when they're on they're too tight and you can't quite get them off um the connector pliers tool so nice quantity to we have a stack everything's nice and neatly kept in here drawer number five um maybe maybe the folks in the ground don't trust us they took our hammer away maybe it's somewhere else on Space Station uh but one big giant wrench has to fit in this box um anyway this is your quick tour of the space station toolbox but one of my crew mates told me before we launched about the Beautiful Noise that tools make up here when they they just something about them being in zero g as they rattle around together so a common thing for us to do is let's say we're going to go do a a task we're going to go do a repair task the procedure will tell us exactly um how many tools we're going to need what we're going to need you're going to need this crescent wrench you're going to need uh this ratchet this these connectors and you go typically grab a Ziploc bag we have around and a lot of our Ziplock bags have Velcro on them so you can stick them places and they'll stay so you can go to your work site carry this little zip boock bag easily see what tools you have inside and keep them from floating away on you but maybe I'll demonstrate what some of those sounds are like so if I grab a few tools out of here and you'll note that uh these have a on them to keep them in place at the work site if we need to as well which is super nice but you can already hear some of the noises they make it's super cool so grab a couple of those maybe uh the quinch racket with ratchet with the flex head and a couple of you know sockets I will note for Tool Nerge at home the 10 mm is here is actually installed but maybe I'm not sure I've got the microphone up near my neck you can hear that noise [Music] it's kind of like a space station space station Windchime but that's why we keep things in a ziplock bag so they don't go floating off in your work site that is the space station toolbox [Applause] [Music]

Channel: NASA Johnson

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Length: 4min 33sec (273 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2024