Female astronaut to lose things in the universe

The astronaut helplessly looked at the tool bag slipping from her hand as she was editing the solar absorption system on the International Space Station (ISS).

The loss of the bag of the astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper occurred earlier this week, when she was investigating the grease for a rotating drive on the ISS station's huge solar energy absorption system. This unit has not been effective for over a year, since it is not possible to automatically control the glass panels in the direction that can absorb the optimal energy.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper is working on a space station.Photo: AP.

As soon as she was about to finish her work, the astronaut's tool bag suddenly slipped out of her body and flew with a pair of pipes to pump grease and greases and a knife. Heidemarie tried to reach out to catch the bag but could not keep up. The bag is now hovering above the ISS station and increasingly away from the station. Flight operators claim it no longer poses a threat to ISS.

The tool bag is about the size of a backpack and this is the biggest item ever lost when astronauts work in the universe. According to NASA estimates, this bag is worth about $ 100,000.

The Endeavor takes off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 15 to carry out a 15-day mission. Astronauts will perform four space walks to repair the solar energy absorption system on the ISS station.

They also have the task of installing new equipment on the station such as new restrooms, kitchen, gym equipment, bedrooms with a total weight of 6,350 kg, to expand the ISS station enough to meet 6 people working from May 2009 replaced 3 as present.

This is the fourth and also the last flight in 2008 of the United States. NASA plans to carry out 10 more flights of spacecraft before their spaceship expires in 2010.