Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away

November 20th, 2008 By MIKE SCHNEIDER , Associated Press Writer

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In this image from NASA TV, a tool kit bag, center, as seen through the helmet camera of astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, floats away from the International Space Station after she lost hold of it during a procedure during a 6 1/2-hour scheduled space walk outside the space station, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA TV)

(AP) -- Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week.

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• DGBEACH - Nov 20, 2008
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  Tethered to the lost briefcase-sized bag were a pair of grease guns used to lubricate a jammed joint that controls the space station's rotating solar wing... NASA guessed it cost about $100,000.

  
  You'd think that a $50,000 grease gun would come with its own "return-home" propulsion system! :)
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• cirrostratus - Nov 20, 2008
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  And the bag was tethered to what?
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• Zachrey - Nov 21, 2008
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  Quick! get some string and a magnet!!! Just whip it out there and snag the bag and reel it in!
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• vlam67 - Nov 21, 2008
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  Quick! get some string and a magnet!!! Just whip it out there and snag the bag and reel it in!

  
  
  Sorry buddy, tools this expensive are not make of steel...
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• Bob_Kob - Nov 23, 2008
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  Quick! get some string and a magnet!!! Just whip it out there and snag the bag and reel it in!

  
  
  Sorry buddy, tools this expensive are not make of steel...

  
  
  lol then what? Gold?
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