Sunday, November 23, 2008

Tool Bag Lost During Space Walk, Seen From Earth

Last week on November 18th, one of the shuttle astronauts, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, lost a tool bag during space walk. It was caught on video:



It's still floating around the earth. Slashdot wrote, "Last night, Nov. 22nd, veteran satellite observer Kevin Fetter video-recorded the backpack-sized bag gliding over his backyard observatory in Brockville, Ontario. "It was easily 8th magnitude or brighter as it passed by the 4th magnitude star eta Pisces," he says. "

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