[Raster Man]

These astronauts train for over a year for their specific mission, yet some of them prove to be incompetent. NASA is more concerned about how she showed "real character" in continuing her work after screwing up. But the mission is in jeopardy, because they may not have enough material to fix everything. She should be booted from the astronaut corps. I am sick of NASA wasting our money on political correctedness and incompetency. Another example is the astronauts on the Columbia disaster. Kalpana Chawla had screwed up a previous mission by launching a satellite into the wrong orbit (requiring an additional shuttle mission to rescue the satellite), yet NASA put her on the Columbia. And, during reentry (a critical phase), Laurel Clark was going around taking home video with her personal camcorder (a fact that NASA quickly hushed up). She even had the commander and pilot wave to the camera during the reentry.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

My guess is that once she returns home to Houston, she’s finished as an astronaut.

[SouthDixie]

I had suspected that 'tool bag' was more important then they play it up otherwise it wouldn't have made national news.

Lest we not forget the 'depends' incident with the 3some astronuts LOL You have to admit, going up into outer space has to make some people wacky.

[Yo-Yo]

The guy sweating out his job right now is the guy at NASA who designed the toolbag without a tether.

[DBrow]

So shuttle and toolbag are now in slightly different elliptical orbits.

If the shuttle does not maneuver, the orbits will intersect once per orbit.

What's the toolbag going to hit when it comes around again?

And since it's lost where shuttles orbit, it could hit some other mission.

At least it's big enough to track.

[NOBAMA in 08]

Why cant they maneuver to pick up the bag? Its not like it was fired into another orbit with a rocket! It drifted away for GODsake! From now on, when NASA is going to insist on having a woman astronaut do a Man’s job, at least be intelligent enough to name! the Toolbag a PURSE and put her coin purse and makeup-compact in IT! Then she will never let it go just because she got a littlle ukky grease on her tiny little nice and neat gloves! Heavens to Mergatroid!

[mmichaels1970]

I thought I was bad for always losing track of my tape-measure, or for losing three pencils for every job.

[flowerplough]

A hyphenated-name woman and a bag of tools should not be allowed in the same solar system at the same time, apparently.

[oldbill]

Manned space flight at NASA now serves two purposes:

1. It is a travel club for a handful of astronauts
2. It is a money fountain for a pile of contractors.

It does no exploration, provides no benefits to the people (we already got Tang and Teflon), and we can’t even get to the Space Station without help from Russian Soyuz capsules. It is the General Motors of government.

[egannacht]

A zero-gravity spacewalk is never complete without a rubber band and a ChipClip. Thread the rubberband through the ChipClip hole and fasten a knot around your belt. Then ChipClip anything you want to keep.

[egannacht]

[SunkenCiv]