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Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth
cathector writes "An article at spaceweather.com reports that the toolbag dropped during Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper's spacewalk has been recorded on film from earth: 'When Endeavour astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper dropped her toolbag during a spacewalk on Nov. 18th and it floated away, mission controllers probably figured they'd seen the last of it. Think again. Last night, Nov. 22nd, veteran satellite observer Kevin Fetter video-recorded the backpack-sized bag gliding over his backyard observatory in Brockville, Ontario. "It was easily 8th magnitude or brighter as it passed by the 4th magnitude star eta Pisces," he says. Spaceweather's satellite tracker is monitoring the toolbag.'"
The actual loss of the bag was filmed, too; reader Kagura links in a comment on the original story to this YouTube clip of the bag's escape.
That's a tool bag!
Scotty will use it in the future to fix the Enterprise. Good stuff.
And I can't even find a single Phillips screwdriver in my own closet!
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I suppose something of this incident will go down in history and become the origin of some common expression like Murphy's Law in the distant future.
They hubbled it up!
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One of the Apollo astronauts once remarked that what they really think about is "Please let me not fuck up.".
However that asshole with the scissors is not.
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One minor slip up and because the media latched onto it this is all she'll ever be remembered for.
"I dropped a toolbag on a spacewalk. But I learned my lesson. And that's why I'll use nothing but Husky brand tethered toolbags, now with lined pockets for those messy grease gun spills."
The possibilities are endless.
Yeah, that's the problem at our house. Our FETCH unit digs up the garden, craps on the neighbor's lawn, pisses off their cat, chases squirrels, knocks up the poodle down the street.
The shuttle crew will need to deploy the rolled up newspaper from time to time.
Have gnu, will travel.
Dangit fine. I tried to resist, but there wasn't enough time left on the countdown.
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