Things didn’t go quite according to plan for astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper during her spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday.
First, a grease gun inside her tool bag leaked, coating everything inside with a film of lubricant. While she was trying to clean it up in the absence of gravity, the whole bag floated away…
Stefanyshyn-Piper was able to share tools with Bowen, and NASA mission controllers expressed confidence that the lost tool bag would not be too much of a problem for the duration of the spacewalk.
After completing a few preliminary tasks, Stefanyshyn-Piper was beginning the job of cleaning and lubricating the gears of the station’s malfunctioning starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, or SARJ, when she discovered the grease gun leak and then lost the bag.
HAL did it!
they should have labeled it a hand bag instead of a tool bag a woman never looses track of her hand bag.
Why was there only one woman up there? They can’t go to the damn bathroom in less than platoon strenght but they spacewalk solo?
Man in bathroom quivering, Woman at least trying. Most women would rather fail than not give it their best shot. We have come a long way, BABY.
I wanna do it in space,I bet that would feel good
…. and the gun leaking was her fault HOW?
lol. you’re just jealous that woman has the job you always wanted as a kid. :*
she lost it not because she’s a woman, but because she grew up in minnesota!
This Army guy says….. Should of used a dummy cord….. dummy. Now in about 10,000 years from now theres going to be a 5 spaceship pile up because a grease gun hit some dudes space shield.
Actually, there was a man there, fortunately.
She had to borrow his tools, which by-the-way, were both clean and tethered.
Men take care of their tools and don’t lose them.