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Topic: Y'know when you're working on the steel & the tool kit.. |
Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 1:41 pm |
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| ...goes floating off into space? Man, I hate when that happens. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 5:00 pm
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| you'd think maybe a safety chord attachment or a bungee could have avoided cosmic litter! |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 6:18 pm
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Duh? "Space 101" says anything not tethered floats away.
Oh, and by the way - how do gears get dirty in space? UFO's splashing melted asteroids or something?  |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 6:26 pm
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| Der gears got full of metal shavings, something like a changer I once took apart.... |
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Jim Park
From:
Carson City, Nv
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 6:40 pm stuff in space
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| Not only a tether but IN CASE something gets loose a little remote control gizmo to go get it...... a remote control spacecraft so to speak..........these nasa guys arent as smart as they want us to think they are! and of course they are engineers that dont have to deal with what they design |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 6:57 pm
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| Remember, in space no one can hear you scream! |
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Jeremy Threlfall
From:
now in Western Australia
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 7:12 pm
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in space, no one can hear you cuss .....
what were her words? ...."oh, great!" or something |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 20 Nov 2008 1:21 pm
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Assuming they are still within the earth's gravitational pull,what happens when the (flaming) tools finally return to earth?  |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 20 Nov 2008 1:38 pm
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I've got dibs on the ball peen hammer.
I'll tell you---that poor woman will have a hard time living this down. NASA is pretty religious about putting a good PR face on things but if you read between the lines of their statements, it's hard to see this as anything but a huge ooops. "Screwing the pooch", as Tom Wolfe put it in "The Right Stuff". Sh*t happens but there are bad times and then there are BAD times for it to happen. I've got much sympathy for her but on the other hand, it could well be that she just didn't take nearly seriously enough the obvious PRIME DIRECTIVE that you check and double check that everything is tied down....ALWAYS.
Although I'd love Astronaut Steve's perspective on this I fully appreciate that just as Paul Franklin would never make public comment on some bad singer that he recorded tracks for (that would just plain be dumb), neither would Steve be ragging on a colleague.
Really, this thread was intended as a commiseration than as a criticism.
But I still gotta wonder----she doesn't have the presence of mind to tether her rig but she does have enough wits about her to not say exactly what needed to be said at that moment.
"OH **%^&%#!!!!"
Or do you figure she was on a 7 second delay? |
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Jim Means
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2008 5:35 pm
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They needed a steel player working on it. I don't recall Steve Robinson loosing his toolkit.
Jim in Missouri
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Ward Skinner
From:
Mission, TX * R.I.P.
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Posted 20 Nov 2008 6:11 pm
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My biggest fear is being killed by a falling, frozen chunk of waste from an airliner while at home sitting in my easy chair. I mean, you know you're #'s up when that happens. And worst of all, what would you be remembered by? You could be the greatest anything, but when your name comes up that's all anyone will remember. A falling tool is not in that category, no worry for me.
In her defense, her grease gun was leaking, she said grease would come out in 1/2" to 1" segments and break off, said grease was everywhere. She was in the process of cleaning the tools when that happened. I saw the interview, she used the word "we", as in "we made a mistake". The team thing you know. But she handled it well, I'm sure no one feels worse than her. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 20 Nov 2008 7:44 pm
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| i don't know why they can't just cover it up with a lie as they have done so many times before! |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 21 Nov 2008 6:35 am
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| When the toolkit comes up on Ebay we'll know where it landed... |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 21 Nov 2008 6:46 pm
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Nasa didn't figure properly for women in space.
If they had put the tools in a $27,000.00 Fendi handbag, she never would have lost that bag....... |
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2008 10:11 pm
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I've always blamed whomever is in the shop at the time for stealing and hiding everything that goes missing (which is just about everything -everyday). Now I can spare 'em all and just start looking around for them floating around the room~~~  . |
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