Dec 8 2008ISS Orbiting Toolbag Filmed From Earth
Remember last month when a NASA toolbag accidentally floated off into space during a repair to the International Space Station (if not, video after the jump. Skip to about 0:55 to see the loss)?
Endeavor astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper's loss has turned out to be an amateur star gazers' event of the season. The $100,000 tool bag slipped out of her reach and floated into space while she was trying to clean up a greasy mess on the starboard section of the space station. The tool bag is now dubbed ISS Toolbag and is orbiting the Earth. According to Space.com, Edward Light spotted the orbiting tool bag using 10 x 50 binoculars from his backyard in Lakewood, New Jersey.
The orbiting tool bag weighs approximately 30-pounds. It measures 20-inches wide and 12-inches long. The tool bag contains two grease guns, a scraper tool, a large trash bag and a small debris bag. Given the size and dim magnitude of the orbiting tool bag, star gazers will need binoculars or a small telescope to view it.
The video above is actual footage of the bag sailing by. Go here and enter your ZIP code to find out when and were to look to see the toolbag for yourself. Alternatively, come over to my place around six when my roommate gets home.
Hit the jump for the loss video.
Endeavour's Orbiting Tool Bag Can Be Seen Using 10 x 50 Binoculars [physorg]
Thanks again to Ain Allmighty, who once kicked a soccer ball into heaven.
Reader Comments
1. MrMaclean - December 8, 2008 4:24 PM
furstsss
2. Georgethefirst - December 8, 2008 4:24 PM
First!
3. rafiki - December 8, 2008 4:30 PM
not first
4. MrMaclean - December 8, 2008 4:30 PM
wrong-o papa georgie-o
5. Jo Mama - December 8, 2008 4:30 PM
This is the last time I let that bitch touch my tools!!!
6. Davo - December 8, 2008 4:32 PM
Haha, toolbag.
PEW PEW
7. bogusbaby - December 8, 2008 4:35 PM
yeeeeeeeyyy!!! a reason to buy binoculars.
8. Gizmoduck - December 8, 2008 4:38 PM
lulz
9. Tenchi059 - December 8, 2008 4:47 PM
That is sure a fast traveling bag.
10. Hannukah Montana - December 8, 2008 5:00 PM
I'd like to take a smash in the space station and let the turd float in outerspace.
Shit, that's nice.
11. matthew - December 8, 2008 5:04 PM
actually that is nibiru... WE'RE ALL GUNNA DIES
12. Klint - December 8, 2008 5:14 PM
lol! :-P
Funniest when he's helplessy waving his arm at it >.<
13. lisasimpson - December 8, 2008 5:14 PM
Not one person has made any sens so far on this post. Except #5.
Never let a woman touch your tools. It only leads to holes in the walls and bloody fingers.
Only let her touch your Tool.
14. formerly SPELLINGNAZI - December 8, 2008 5:25 PM
WTF??? $100.000 for two grease guns, a scraper tool, a large trash bag and a small debris bag????
15. Niklas K - December 8, 2008 5:34 PM
Do they really need to send woman to the space?
Whats the reason?
Is it because they are lighter and are cheaper to send up?
or maybe they requirer less pay...
16. boxofwine - December 8, 2008 5:39 PM
yeah baby, my bags famous. its so big you can see it orbiting earth.
now let me get some of that booyah action.
17. known - December 8, 2008 5:42 PM
Dammit where in the hell is that wrenchset already!?
18. Moose Knuckle - December 8, 2008 5:54 PM
Isn't there a joke where a construction worker is giving hand signals to his new female employee out of earshot asking where the hammer is, and she keeps grabbing her boob and crotch, so he walks all the way over to her and says "I'm asking where the hammer is!" and she says "I know, I was saying I left-tit in the box."
Silly cooze.
19. Daisy - December 8, 2008 6:05 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This is exactly like the scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max meets a man from the future who tells him to invest in zinc.
20. Gizmoduck - December 8, 2008 6:33 PM
@18
WAT
21. Epic Fail - December 8, 2008 6:42 PM
This is so hilarious it's not even funny. You would think that NASA would of atleast taught the astronauts to attach their tools to the station or something to that affect but no... they just leave it to the side and if you watch closely she just tosses that thing into orbit. So awesome.
It's only $100K because of all the overhead costs attached to the actual transport of the tools... on earth those items were probably around $2K at the most but because of the whole "space-travel" deal it gets tacked on additional expenses. I can't wait to see what Obama does to NASA's budget next year.
22. Lube Skyhumper - December 8, 2008 7:59 PM
Damn! Now only if someone from NASA would come help me find my tool bag!
23. Daisy - December 8, 2008 9:57 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like the scene in the movie Armageddon where Arnold Stallone loses his bag to a russian in a famous poker scene.
24. Mike Hawk - December 8, 2008 10:04 PM
Ah......Whoops?
25. Bronto - December 8, 2008 10:18 PM
>>formerly SPELLINGNAZI - December 8, 2008 5:25 PM
>>WTF??? $100.000 for two grease guns, a scraper tool, a large trash bag and >>a small debris bag????
Shipping, dumbass.
26. Nick - December 8, 2008 11:36 PM
The guy who first found this on his telescope lives about a half hour from me.
27. chickenbeaklittlefeet - December 8, 2008 11:56 PM
ok guys,
is it normal for this to make me gassy?
because i looked at this and farted huge!
28. Paul - December 9, 2008 8:47 AM
That's funny, that tool bag looks nothing like my boss.
29. butterbee - December 9, 2008 10:00 AM
toolbox.
30. lulu - December 9, 2008 10:21 AM
they haven't invented a grappling hook to take up there with them yet to grab this kind of shit??! come on 'engineers'!
31. lisasimpson - December 9, 2008 11:03 AM
I hate you daisy. You can't even keep track of your own stupid posts. I wish you would fly into outer space and get lost. I think we'd all be willing to scrape together $100K to get you off these posts. Tool.
32. Yopoleo - December 9, 2008 5:08 PM
I think the astronauts should have a sticky-like-web shooting device, like spiderman does (in the comic, not the movie, wich is all wrong, because it should shoot from his ass).
To avoid this kind of goofs.
33. TsukiNeko - December 10, 2008 8:04 AM
Mmmh... Yosh ! And...?
34. Pepijn - December 11, 2008 12:48 PM
Alternatively, come over to my place around six when my roommate gets home.
Win!
35. j redd - December 17, 2008 1:33 AM
What a waste of american tax dollars... OMG what a funny tee: http://www.zazzle.com/oh_great_lost_tool_bag_in_space_shirt-235424542225361620?rf=238523477890361372
36. You'reAMoron - January 16, 2009 5:28 AM
@19 and @23 (Daisy):
Considering PHOTOSHOP is a STILL image software tool, I don't think it was Photoshop'd. Add "Photoshopped/Photoshop'd" to the top-100 most abused technology terms for sure. Right up there with Hi-Def and Holograms. GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!