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Lost Astronaut Tool Bag Mania
As we have already reported, a week ago Minnesota-born astronaut astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper accidentally let go (video) of her $100 k space tool bag. (”Disheartening,” she calls it in this video.) Note the tool bag itself has become something of a minor internet celebrity, what with people filming it from their backtyard, satellites tracking it’s orbit and mapping the results (via), and Minnesotans hoaxing eBay by claiming to have the bag for sale (via). What more do you want to see before we get $100k worth of entertainment out of this incident?
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