Space Station Tricorder

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Astronaut Suni Williams (with flowing microgravity locks of hair) uses LOCAD-PTS onboard the International Space Station.
Astronaut Suni Williams (with flowing "microgravity locks" of hair) uses LOCAD-PTS onboard the International Space Station.

Any Trekkies out there? Remember the tricorder? Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock both carried them, and they came in mighty handy exploring "strange new worlds ...where no one has gone before."


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