astronaut loses $100,000 tool bag during spacewalk

[Jon]

NASA astronaut and Navy captain Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper loses a tool bag during a 2008 spacewalk, while working on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint in the International Space Station.

It's enough of an accomplishment to discover space flight, successfully launch humans into orbit, and then construct a habitable space station. However, what's really impressive here is that someone could lose an entire bag of tools in space and restrain themselves enough to only utter: "oh, great". I do much worse when I drop a socket in an engine bay.

The $100,000 bag of tools drifted away while Stefanyshyn-Piper was cleaning up a mess from a leaky grease gun that she was using to lubricate the joint's gears. The tool bag, dubbed "ISS Toolbag", achieved celebrity status as its exact location in orbit was monitored constantly by satellite tracking systems on Earth. Sightings were recorded by multiple skywatchers, included this video of the toolbag from Kevin Fetter:

Legend has it that the $100,000 tool bag still orbits Earth to this day, waiting for the moment when an astronaut may have need for a NASA-issued grease gun...

Actually, the bag burned up during re-entry in 2009.