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11-20-08, 03:09 AM #1
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Astronaut who lost tool bag admits making mistake
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she's still smarting over the whole thing.
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said in an interview with The Associated Press that it was "very disheartening" to lose her bag full of tools. She was trying to clean up grease that had oozed out of a grease gun in the backpack-size bag, when the tote and everything in it floated away Tuesday.
The bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut. NASA put the price tag of the tool bag at $100,000.
For a split second, she thought she might be able to grab it and she tried to judge how far away it was. Just as quickly, "I thought, no, that would probably just make things worse and the best thing to do would be to just let it go."Do not war for peace. If you must war, war for justice. For without justice there is no peace. -me
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11-20-08, 03:13 AM #2
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11-20-08, 09:22 AM #3
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What a space cadet!
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11-20-08, 01:25 PM #4
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Originally Posted by Jenna
What a space cadet! 
Good decision to let the tools go by the way unless you don't mind being a permanent floating resident of space dreaming about bacon for all eternity.SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
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Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeals , he is unfit to command.
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11-20-08, 02:21 PM #5
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Mmm, bacon... Originally Posted by Captain America
Good decision to let the tools go by the way unless you don't mind being a permanent floating resident of space dreaming about bacon for all eternity."If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." -Gen. George S. Patton
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11-20-08, 05:26 PM #6
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That sucks because it will probably prevent her from ever going back to space!
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11-20-08, 09:17 PM #7
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I dunno. There's a lot of money and time invested into her training. A LOT more than 100K I would imagine. Kind of silly to can her over the whole thing. Originally Posted by mtaylor
In all seriousness though, she needs to put her space-slippers back on, get back into the galley, and make me a freeze dried hot dog!
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