How to build space-station saving cufflinks

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On Apollo 13 in 1970, over the course of about 36 hours Mission Control devised a plan for how to adapt square CO2 scrubbers from the damaged command module to fit like the round scrubbers for the lunar module. On Skylab 2 in 1973, veteran Pete Conrad carried out an emergency spacewalk on parts of the Skylab space station that had no handrails to deploy a solar array and a sun-shade, and save the station. On STS-51-D in 1985, as part of an eventful flight the astronauts built 'fly-swatters' that spacewalkers the installed on the end of the Canadarm to try and trip a faulty event sequencer on a satellite they had just deployed. There have been a couple of other cases of astronauts "improvising", but tomorrow's spacewalk might have the most in common with Conrad's miracle EVA of 34 years ago without which there would have been no Skylab program. Here's how to built your own set of Space Station cufflinks.