During the two-week mission's first spacewalk Tuesday, the tool bad floated out of a larger bag as Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned a leaking grease gun. Tied to the lost briefcase-sized bag were a pair of grease guns used to lubricate a stuck joint that controls the space station's rotating solar wing. The bag is one of the biggest objects ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut, and NASA guessed it cost about $100,000. "We're definitely not going to do it again. You're not going to see us lose another bag," lead spacewalker Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said in an interview from the international space station
I find it stupid that someone would pay so little attention to a bag containing $100,000 dollars worth of tools. If I where her i would feel kind of embarassed as the bag slowly floated off into the cold darkness of outerspace.
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