LAKELAND, Fla. — Spacewalk repairs are no small task for NASA astronauts, but thanks to students at Florida Polytechnic University, the process could soon get a lot easier.

What You Need To Know • Florida Polytechnic University students created a tool to assist astronauts with spacewalk repairs • Their invention was part of NASA’s Micro-g NExT Challenge, a national competition • Students say NASA tested their designed tool in underwater simulations and praised it

Each piece of the tool that they created is part of a spacewalk tool that David Chazbani and Eduardo Jirau helped create.

The purpose is to make it easier for astronauts to secure two overlapping pieces of fabric while outside the International Space Station.

“There’s a lot of insulation out there around every single cap

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