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.

Comments

TOOL BAG!

[Taken07]

It's a bird! It's a plane! No .. wait it's a tool bag.

Re:Check out the sexism on the youtube video

[LingNoi]

Are you serious? "I want to Nuke Iran" Hillary is smart? lol..

Re:That's no moon!

[Jesus_666]

That's not because she was femals, that's because she was Deanna. Come on, this is the woman that used telepathic abilities to "detect hostility" in people who were currently busy getting a torpedo lock on the Enterprise...