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Morning Start: Does NASA email tools to astronauts?

Your morning start for Monday, December 30th, 2019.
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(Natalia Cuevas-Huaico - Kelowna Capital News)

It’s officially the last Monday of this decade!

Fun Fact of the day:

Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically “email” tools to astronauts…

In 2014, The International Space Station’s 3-D printer completed the first phase of a NASA technology demonstration by printing a tool with a design file transmitted from the ground to the printer. The tool was a ratchet wrench. This is the first time a design file has been sent from the ground to make a tool.

Weather forecast according to Environment Canada:

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In case you missed it (ICYMI):

Carbon Engineering’s groundbreaking plant is one of many projects hoping to help in the fight against climate change by turning its main driver — carbon dioxide — into a useful product Read more here.

Video of the day:

It’s the gym’s busiest time of the year…

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Natalia Cuevas Huaico
Social Media Co-ordinator/ Reporter, Black Press Media


Natalia Cuevas Huaico

About the Author: Natalia Cuevas Huaico

A Vancouver-born and recent graduate of the Broadcast and Online Journalism program at BCIT, Natalia decided to jumpstart her social media and journalism career in beautiful Kelowna.
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