[Faigokilix]

Why is it not attached on her suit by a cord or some kind of belt?

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/3063...e_ff_vast.html

[Tumarimmicdak]

In such bulky suits, you actually want as few objects 'tied down' as possible - otherwise there's a serious risk of becoming entangled in the wiring.

[FailiaFelay]

*shakes head*

Looked like she was panicking or in a big hurry the way she was scrabbling through that bag. In space walks everything should be calm, controlled and every action thought through before carried out. You can't rely on instincts like she did when she moved the box out of the way expecting it to stay where it was.

[ljq0AYOV]

Woman [no]

[ThzinChang]

Woman [no]

That's what I was thinking. Who let her out of the ship's kitchen?

Sexist jokes aside, sucks to be her.

[fapourfasiark]

Murphy's law.

[Reocourgigiot]

That's what I was thinking. Who let her out of the ship's kitchen?

Sexist jokes aside, sucks to be her.

sucks to be me. i have to make sure every object in space is tracked. including her spanners.

[dmoiknlasd]

That toolbox is gonna end up at an auction on planet "lol" under the "human bloopers" category.

[affozyBoomi]

sucks to be me. i have to make sure every object in space is tracked. including her spanners.

shame it don't track you,cos your a bit of a spanner [rofl]

[Slchtjgb]

shame it don't track you,cos your a bit of a spanner [rofl]

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[affozyBoomi]

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don't worry matey,were old friends [thumbup]

[ThzinChang]

shame it don't track you,cos your a bit of a spanner [rofl]

I rofl'd. That was pretty good.

[ljq0AYOV]

don't worry matey,were old friends [thumbup]

Arrrrrrrright matey [rofl]

[vipdumpp]

Yeah I was watching this yesterday morning on NASA TV, and I was like, ahh you silly woman. lol

Then ever since I saw it it looks like it's a big deal that she lost it as now all the news networks are reporting it. [rofl]

While they might have a spare toolbox, the fact is it takes a long time to prepare for an EVA, with compression chambers and stuff and all sorts of preparation. So she's pretty much just screwed up a days work by losing that kit. Considering she should be on some form of cable tie down she should have dived for the box!

Never send a woman to do a mans job! [beta][oops][ban]

[JohnImamadviser]

So thats how that toolbox landed in my backyard. And here I thought it was God's way of telling me to get off the computer and be more manly.

[PefeFoesk]

Are we sure it's not her make-up bag?

[Assentesy]

Are we sure it's not her make-up bag?

Only if she looks like Frankenstein!!

Yes and I do know Frankenstein was not the name of the monster.

[ljq0AYOV]

Are we sure it's not her make-up bag?

Nope she wouldn't of lost THAT! even if her life would be on risk

[Faigokilix]

LOL indeed, she would have jumped right after it !

[Faigokilix]

In such bulky suits, you actually want as few objects 'tied down' as possible - otherwise there's a serious risk of becoming entangled in the wiring.

Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week. "We're definitely not going to do it again. You're not going to see us lose another bag," lead spacewalker Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said in an interview from the international space station with The Associated Press.
During the two-week mission's first spacewalk Tuesday, the tool tote floated out of a larger bag as Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned grease from a leaking grease gun. Tethered to the lost briefcase-sized bag were a pair of grease guns used to lubricate a jammed joint that controls the space station's rotating solar wing. The bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut, and NASA guessed it cost about $100,000.
from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/.../space_shuttle


So there is a policy for having things secured, bulky suits or not.