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Space Oops

Posted on 19 November 2008 by Ed Z

Watch out for
falling tools
.

.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
watched helplessly as the kit drifted away from her as she
serviced the solar array system on the orbiting platform.

The briefcase-sized tool bag
is one of the largest items ever lost on a spacewalk.

The event occurred during
the first spacewalk of the latest shuttle flight to the ISS, which
is intended to give the orbiting platform a major makeover.

How about a rope?  No rope in the NASA budget?  And
the article states, "the briefcase-sized tool bag is one of the largest
items ever lost on a spacewalk".  One of the largest?  What else
are the losing up there?

Good thing her keys weren’t in the bag.

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