Lost tool bag forces changes to planned spacewalks

My Way News ^ | 11-19-2008 | By MIKE SCHNEIDER

[Red Badger]

Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated out to space during a repair trip.

The briefcase-sized tool bag drifted away from astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper on Tuesday as she cleaned and lubed a gummed-up joint on a wing of solar panels on the space station. She and fellow astronaut Stephen Bowen were midway through the first of four spacewalks planned for the mission. The tool bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalker.

As Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned up a large gob of grease that seeped from a gun used to lubricate the joint, the tool case somehow became untethered from a larger bag and floated away along with a pair of grease guns, wipes and a putty knife attached to it.

"What it boils down to is all it takes is one small mistake for a tether not to be hooked up quite correctly or to slip off, and that's what happened here," said lead spacewalk officer John Ray.

[Red Badger]

But this is a SPACE CAULKING GUN.........You can’t find one of those at Home Depot!.....;^)

[Don Corleone]

plan ahead - BE PREPARED

" That's the Boy Scouts marching song

Be Prepared as thru life you march along

Don't solicit for your sister

that's not nice

unless you get a fair percentage of her price

Be prepared, to hide that pack of cigarettes

Don't make book if you cannot cover bets

Etc.

....TU Tom Leherer.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Don't each of the astronauts carry one of these as standard issue?

[Rudder]

I hope this woman astronaut can at least cook.

[Red Badger]

LOL!!!....Izzat for real?.....

[Minn]

I don’t think I’ve ever once lost a tool bag on a space walk.

[FreeAtlanta]

Obama’s fault!

:-) after 8 years of the wacky left saying everything is Bush’s fault, it sure is nice to be able to blame a Dimwit.

[Paladin2]

TTIUWP.

[Red Badger]

Here's the lost bag drifting away..............

[Red Badger]

see next post.........

[Paladin2]

[Paladin2]

What’s wrong with their tractor beam?

[CatoRenasci]

This was from the Onion, right?...........

No? Just a little Operator Headspace here? NASA's gone to the dogs.

[RedRightReturn]

“I know what the DB stands for.”.........

But do you know what the “C” on Coach bags stands for???

ba-dum-cha...

[Red Badger]

same thing the “C” stands for twice on a Coco Chanel bag.......

[Red Badger]

They had to turn it off because it would affect th ozone hole............

[Travis T. OJustice]

What’s wrong with their tractor beam?

Do you have any idea how hard it is to start a tractor in the cold void of space?

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Years of training, billions of dollars in the highest technology and some of the brightest minds in the world.

And this chick forgets to tether the MISSION CRITICAL tool bag!

/facepalm

[Red Badger]

NASA, meet VELCRO...............

[VanShuyten]

I got fired once when my tool bag got STOLEN. What about her?