NASA to IKEA: Help!
Imagine trying to design a closet to hold space junk.
That’s what scientists in Japan have done to help astronauts living in the International Space Station (no word if they asked IKEA designers for help).
Apparently the Space Station has a lot of “clutter” and is in desperate need of storage space.
I googled the design and it sounds very cool.
The space-closet is officially called a “logistics module”. It’s about 12-feet by 14-feet in size. It weighs more than 4-tons (on Earth). And it can hold a whack of stuff (yes… whack is a technical term).
NASA will send the giant space-closet up on the next Shuttle - scheduled to launch in mid-March.
It should give astronauts a place to hang their space suits.