She touches the Sun from Space Photo

[Ichingcarpenter]

Sunita Williams, an Indian-American NASA astronaut and flight engineer on the 32nd expedition to the International Space Station appears to touch the sun on a spacewalk.

[midnight]

1. K&R

A $100 billion space station saved by a simple $3 toothbrush? It was the brainstorm of astronauts Sunita Williams and Akihido Hoshide and NASA engineers on the ground: a tool to clean a bolt that gave them so much trouble during a marathon 8-hour spacewalk last week.

They were trying to replace an electrical switching unit, but on Thursday they couldn't bolt it to the outside of the station.

What to do if there is no hardware store in the neighborhood and the next supply ship is months away? Build it yourself -- so they attached a simple toothbrush to a metal pole and voila! They were able to clean out the bolt's socket today and finish the job. Shades of Apollo 13 -- when engineers threw parts on a table and brainstormed a solution, which saved the crew.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/space-station-saved-toothbrush-astronauts-spacewalk-fasten-stuck/story?id=17160937#.UEsr2o69wUU

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Thanks for the story

It makes the photo even cooler.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Stunning and inspiring--literally reaching for the stars!

ETA: Human ingenuity + a toothbrush. A winning combination!

[FredStembottom]

4. Wondering what the crushed milk jug does for them...

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[ChazInAz]

5. Ad astra per aspera.

Through difficulties to the stars!

[lastlib]

6. A modern-day Prometheus....

WOW!! How awesome it must be to WALK in SPACE!!!!

[sakabatou]

7. That's not the Sun

It's Spirit Bomb.