HOUSTON (AP) - Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated out to space during a repair trip.Gotta love it... Another one of those women with two last names, trophy astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, managed to lose her tool bag on a spacewalk.
Calling the incident a "little hiccup", she bragged about how she still managed to spend seven hours on her spacewalk.
Bottom line? She didn't tether the tool bag properly, or forget to.
With half the tools for this mission lost - and regardless what NASA will claim while trying to cover this major screw-up - it will be impossible to complete the needed repair and maintenance work scheduled for this space shuttle mission, one of our last.
So, thanks to Mis Stefie-pip, needed maintenance will not be done, and we now have the largest piece of space junk ever lost orbiting around somewhere near the international space station, a real hazard to future missions. It will have to be constantly tracked and monitored so future flights to the space station won't run into it and cause a real disaster. You all recall just how fragile those leading edges are on the wings of the space shuttle.
You go girl!
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