Say good bye to those expensive tools!NASA is now scrambling to salvage what remains of the spacewalks planned for the current space shuttle Endeavor's visit to the International Space Station. It seems a girl was allowed to accompany the astronauts on a space walk to repair a joint on a solar panel wing. The girl, who insists on using a hyphenated name to prove she is her "own person" (Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper) was busy primping herself and wiping some grease off her sleeve when she decided she needed to use both hands. So she let go of a suitcase sized tool bag full of equipment valued at HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, which of course, flew away into OUTER SPACE. The tool bag is the largest item ever lost by a spacewalker. She insisted on continuing to "play astronaut" and forced the real astronaut accompanying her to share his tools with her. She was the first woman to be assigned as lead spacewalker for a shuttle flight.
"Despite my little hiccup . . . I think we did a good job out there," Stefanyshyn-Piper said after returning to the space station.
"Despite my little hiccup . . . I think we did a good job out there," Stefanyshyn-Piper said after returning to the space station.
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