2 NASA Astronauts lost their tool bag while making repairs on the ISS and you can see it from Earth!
How bad have you messed up at your job?
On November 2nd, NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara were carrying out repairs on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) when their tool bag floated off into space! Adding insult to injury, the moment was captured on a livestream.
Their mistake was rather costly, with the contents of the bag being worth $100,000 USD.
However, the tool bag has been found! It’s orbiting around the Earth at a speed of 17,000 mph, about five minutes ahead of the ISS.
The highly reflective bag is reported to have a visual magnitude of around 6, which means you should be able to see it with some good binoculars or a telescope.
However there’s a good chance it disintegrates before the ISS makes its next pass over Thunder Bay. As it descends rapidly, the bag is likely to disintegrate when it reaches an altitude of around 70 miles over Earth.
Funny enough, this isn’t the first time an astronaut has lost a bag in space.
In 2008, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper mislaid hers while repairing a jammed gear on one of the solar panels of the space shuttle Endeavour.
Other items lost to the cosmos include a spare glove in 1965 and a camera in 2007.
As for the weirdest object to get lost in space? That honour goes to a spatula that was dropped by late NASA astronaut Piers Sellers during the space shuttle Discovery’s flight STS-121 in 2006.
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