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Astronaut Loses Tool Bag During Repair Mission

For a split second, astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn Piper thought about going after the tool bag that had floated away. "I thought maybe I can jump for it and grab it," she said. "But then we would have two floating objects, and one of them would be me -- so the best thing was just let it go, and it was very disheartening to watch it float away." The price tag for the lost bag was $100,000. It wasn't even a designer bag. But NASA can't buy parts off the rack, and everything that flies into space... Full Story
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