Military officers, brilliant scientists, physically fit and operating in perhaps the most demanding environment we've asked of the human body... and all anyone remembers is they dropped the spanner.
Anyone got a link to an official report detailing what happened? The article is kinda light on details, but I assume this is a major mishap that can only happen if multiple things go wrong simultaneously? Everything m they do up there is a precisely choreographed dance so it would be interesting to read a technical report on that.
It happens now and then. I recall this happening a few decades ago. A very human video from then: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vXdRUIZ_EM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vXdRUIZ_EM</a>
This has happened two more times:<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronauts-lost-items-in-space-dropped-bag-2023-11" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronauts-lost-items-i...</a>
> "The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk."<p>Could have left that in drafts
Planetes is real?<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meAYYH-DYKc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meAYYH-DYKc</a>
I know what the historical present is but its use here is confusing. Just use "dropped." If the headline needs the present use "leave".
"That tool bag, valued at $100,000, circled the planet for months until meeting its fiery end after plunging to Earth and disintegrating. Experts believe last week's missing tool bag will share the same fate as it hurtles in the upper atmosphere, which has become increasingly littered."<p>That makes no sense. Its like they are saying it burning up will 'litter' the upper atmosphere. I assume they meant to say that it being in orbit as debris is the litter, but I'd doubt it will be up there long due to its altitude and density.
There is a rumour that several years ago some tools were dropped on purpose. Because astronaut did not liked to stay on orbit, and he/she wanted to return to Earth ahead of schedule.