Hasta La Ideas

Tradesmen travel with their tools, and the best of them have organized systems for hauling them. Remember that shot of Benjamin Lai’s kit? Then there’s Ron Paulk, who’s got an entire shop inside a box truck. And while you don’t see systems like Lai’s and Paulk’s every day, one tool organization system you’ve probably never seen is the one on the International Space Station.

Timothy Peake, a former British Army Air Corps officer and the first British citizen to become a European Space Agency astronaut, is ISS-bound come 2015. As part of his training, he’s working with a replica of the toolbox set-up they’ve got up topside, and on his Flickr page we get a rare look at the storage system.

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