Astronauts Use Toothbrush to Fix International Space Station

Reblogged from NewsFeed:

When it comes to the care and maintenance of the International Space Station, you'd probably expect astronauts to be armed with an arsenal of expensive, high-tech tools. (And hey: they are.) But faced with a particularly dire situation this week, two resourceful astronauts and a few creative NASA engineers back on Earth turned to an unlikely instrument: a toothbrush.

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Common sense precedes technology

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