Astronaut who lost tool bag admits making mistake

You would have thought that she should have already had enough practice with handling her own bloody handbag back on Earth, and so not make a silly mistake like that.

So her tool bag floated off into oblivion, so what, it happens to the best of us. She's in Fing space, for crying out loud, I'm still looking up to her; we all are. A real embarrassment would be if SHE floated off, and the space shuttle commander had to make the unprecedented decision to undock and follow her into a higher orbit to scoop her up with the open cargo bay or robot arm.

It's described that astronauts have tethers to keep them safe. Why was that bag not tethered to relevant astronaut? She could just have pulled it back.

Aha, it was originally tethered. I found this from another article after I left this comment:
http://www.physor...661.html
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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."

To bad it wasn't duct tape. An alien could pick it up and say "hey these Earthlings are not so dumb after all. I could use this to repair my warp front bumper!"

Thats NASA for you. Teach them all to tie a bunch of knots. It reminds me of the space pen(when a pencil will do).
Should have used Carabiners.

To bad it wasn't duct tape. An alien could pick it up and say "hey these Earthlings are not so dumb after all. I could use this to repair my warp front bumper!"

The only thing that Duct Tape is guaranteed to stick to is Duct Tape.

thats what happens when you send a gurl to do a man's job!

bare foot, pregnant and in the kitchen....not floating in spaceand losing a "grip" on everything!

thats what happens when you send a gurl to do a man's job!

Well, I know many a "man" who would not have owned up to the mistake as this "girl" did.

In fact, there are so many that, in the Navy we've a term for them - Sea Lawyers.

dude, i blame nasa more than any astronaut.
seriously . no way to get this thing back?
what crap.

Amateur video of the "lost" tool bag taken 11-22-08 here http://www.spacew...j68es6e2

Anyone ever thought of putting a magnet in the bag?

So the team lost "a pair of grease guns, wipes and a putty knife". What the heck's the big deal about? $5.00 at the local hardware, right? Sure, would have been better not to loose it, but surely won't cripple the mission, I'd think. Send up two extra tubes of grease with the next construction crew.