[mysterio]

The tool bag cost $100,000

Flat out taxpayer robbery. Privatize NASA.

[norraad]

Really, I can only imagine the $}it storm I'd encounter if I lost that much company equipment simply because I forgot to safety-tether it properly.

[21twelve]

“The tool bag cost $100,000...Flat out taxpayer robbery. Privatize NASA.”

That's silly - the solution of course is to have Government Run Everything (health care, investments, college, etc.). Then by buying in bulk there will be HUGE savings, plus the fact that I won't have to pay anything. Also - by taking this kind of stuff out of the hands of so many various private companies and putting it under Government Control will streamline things to make everything faster and easier! Thank goodness Obama got elected so he can get us back to the New Deal and get us out of trouble!

At least that's what my liberal acquaintances tell me. Seriously. Time to go bang my head against the wall.

[cva66snipe]

For someone man or woman to loose a tool kit working in the most hostile environment known to mankind seems to me would come under acceptable or expected loss. No such mission is without this risk. The ones up their risked their very lives to do a mission for our nation. The concern at the time was the ruptured grease pack and my guess would also be doing a damage assessment from it.

How many life and death task do you juggle at once in your line of work? IOW give the person a break. $100K accidents on the job or rather losses occur many times a day in our nation. Believe it or not in most cases the person goes on with the job at the same company. We call them accidents all a fact of life. Had she intentionally tossed the pack out and said Whee watch this folks then I could see reason for complaining. Given the venue and complexity of the job she was doing somehow I don't think anyone posting on the thread would be qualified to do any better.