[BGHater]

Plenty of chances to view the 100k Tool Bag.

[1rudeboy]

Interesting conversation around the turkey-dissecting table yesterday: if left alone, will this bag eventually collide with the space station on some future orbit?

[NonValueAdded]

Weighs?

[norraad]

...lost her grip on the backpack-sized bag on Nov. 18 while cleaning up a mess from a leaking grease gun she was carrying to help mop up ....

O M G , how embarrassing...

Some things never change, at least it's only a grease gun, the last time seals failed we lost a Shuttle (Discovery, was it, so long ago, my memory's fadin').

Btw-when I worked as a rigger here on erf, we had to tether everything, why didn't have it rigged?

[MosesKnows]

Once the tool bag floated away

This statement puzzles me. What force would cause the tool bag to float away?

[mylife]

I will sell the ISS a new tool bag with "3" grease guns, a scrapper, a large box of hefty trash bags And a bucket of "oxyclean" for the low price of 75K ☺

[Pelagius of Asturias]

Uh, er, umm, duh, things cannot be dropped in space.

[mylife]

BTW You can listen to ISS

[Doctor Raoul]

Damn, and the bag matched her shoes too.

[Boxen]

A video of the incident on Youtube.

There's no point in attempting to retreive the bag, as any effort would cost much more than the bag itself.

[Young Werther]

There's the tool kit!

Surely you can see it!

I see it but don't call me Shirley!

[Chode]

and it wasn't leashed/tethered to her because?????????

[mikrofon]

Keven Fetter of Brockville, Ontario, video-recorded the bag as it passed by the star Eta Pisces in the constellation Pisces

"Going where no Tool bag has gone before...."

[mikrofon]

Sounds like a job for-

[isom35]

every Christmas from now on I would buy Heide a new bag.

[SunkenCiv]

:’D Besides the $100K worth of tools, it cost quite a bit per pound just to put them in orbit — not to mention the cost to put that not-good-with-her-hands asstronaut up there to lose it.

I wonder if she has some kind of physiological problem?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2135264/posts?page=27#27

[mysterio]

The tool bag cost $100,000

Flat out taxpayer robbery. Privatize NASA.

[kalee]

ping

[bray]

Apparently she was talking on her cellphone and fixing her mascara which made her lose track of the toolkit.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Nik Naym]

I can’t even find the pair of pliers I set down somewhere in the shop this morning.