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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Tool Bag Drifts Through Space

One of the Endeavour astronauts accidentally lost a tool bag during a spacewalk on Tuesday after a grease gun inside the bag exploded. Objects have been lost in space before, but this was one of the largest items ever lost by an astronaut on a spacewalk.


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That was a bad accident!!!!!!!

WOW could you imagine going out into space and seeing a tool bag drifting bye, that would be funny. I would laugh :)

that is amazing i heard it was worth 100,000$!!!!

Ha! Stinks for that guy! No, I'm kidding! I'm sure it will all be okay in the end! :) Check out my Australia blog people!

wow, that person must have felt really bad :(

das schlecht! (that's german for that's bad!):-)

what the- that's like... uh... HORRIBLE! BUt I did have a dream I was in space and I caught the toolbag. :-) Imagine staring, and a toolbox floats by! You'd be like "uh......"

That's pretty bad. will it just float around in space forever????

It would be weird to see a tool bag floating by in space...I wonder if it will be lost forever

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