Oh the pain!!!
Posted on 11/18/2008 9:28:45 PM PST by Lorianne
A tool bag floated away in space as U.S. astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper worked outside the International Space Station Tuesday.
Stefanyshyn-Piper, who is working from the space shuttle Endeavour, had a grease gun inside her tool bag leak, and while she was trying to clean it up, the whole bag floated away, CNN reported.
Stefanyshyn-Piper was outside the space station on a scheduled six-hour spacewalk with fellow mission specialist Steve Brown.
The Endeavour began its mission Thursday when it lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Also Tuesday, one of two orb weaver spiders was missing aboard the space station, Fox News reported.
We don't believe that it's escaped the overall payload enclosure, said Kirk Shireman, NASA's deputy station program manager. I'm sure we'll find him spinning a web sometime here in the next few days.
The web spun so far lacked the usual symmetry expected.
The web was more or less three-dimensional and it looked like it was all over the inside of the spider hab, said NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, the space station's science officer. We took some pictures of it, so hopefully they will turn out.
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I thought gals would die before losing their purses. /sarc
PETA is very upset that we are harming spiders by sending them up into space, so that the evil west will grow giant spiders to be Used to conquer Islam.
Oh the pain!!!
EEEEP!!! way too big a picture. i will ll have the crawlers all night now!
I don’t know if I would consider that pain... that picture just makes me giggle.
I for one will welcome our new spider overlords.
LOL - great minds think alike
“Danger! Will Robinson, Danger!”
That’s why every household should have a shotgun.
I really didn’t need to see that right before bedtime.. Ick!
Freeze them with spray and then light them with a match! Tee-Hee!
"Eeewww, it's all greasy and yucky...."
For crying out loud - it's a tool bag - finish your job, take it inside, and clean it up later like any normal man would do.
Not a chauvanist, but heck - this is why there are some jobs only a man should be doing!!
I wanted a refund after I saw it.
If she wants to keep her own name (for professional reasons, or personal ones, or just doesn't want the hassle....), that's fine IMHO. If she wants the husband's name, that's OK too. Anything else is just indecisive.
Show more respect to our coming Spider Overlords.
(They’ll be better than Obama, anyway.)
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