STS-126 - EVA 1 Tool Bag Overboard

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

This is one bad hair day you'd never forget.
First her grease gun cuts loose and smears grease all through the tool bag, on her hands, on the camera. Then while she's trying to clean up that mess a tool kit worth $100,000 escapes.
I wonder if she can laugh about it now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flZRps0pBEo

[renormalised (Carl)]

She's probably still paying for it....with interest, no doubt.

[Liz]

Oh dear, that was almost painful to watch ... ..... like spilling makeup in your handbag, but its grease in the old tool bag ... and shes wiping and wiping, and wiping and wiping ... you can see the tool bag come up..... grab it Heidi!!! .... but shes still wiping and wiping ... oh dear .... there goes the toolbag .... I think she tries to ignore it for a sec ... ... think she and I need a . No, jjj, i dont think she would be over it yet.

[renormalised (Carl)]

She should've done the heroic thing, tied herself off to one of the rails with a tie line, and then made a leap for the toolbag

Just think, it's the equivalent of tossing over the side a mid range Jag or Merc....you'd dive after one of those to stop it from getting away!!

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

They're not allowed to twitch an eyebrow without the say so of ground control. Note she didn't even start cleaning up the grease until told it was ok.
You know, she didn't swear, not once!

[renormalised (Carl)]

I know....but that stops the astronauts from using their initiative. They won't be able to call out to mission control on deep space missions, every time they have a problem.

Can't wait for mission control to tell you it's OK to clean out the bag or cabinet when you're stuck halfway between Earth and Mars. You just have to do it.

[Suzy]

Oh dear, just wasn't worth getting out of bed that day....!

[RobF (Rob)]

Ouch - agree with Liz - almost too painful to watch.
Thanks for posting Jeanette - pretty amazing NASA makes all this available. Commendable really.

Wonder what the sequence of events leading up to the grease gun episode was. Probably nothing to do with herself truth be known. The old "exploding grease gun in the handbag trick" (said with Maxwell Smart intonation....)

[allan gould]

Just love to see her constantly rumaging through that handbag for something thats always at the bottom.

[acropolite (Phil)]

At the risk of starting WWIII, what is it that women say about multitasking....

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by allan gould

Just love to see her constantly rumaging through that handbag for something thats always at the bottom.

LOL she's cleaning all the grease out of her work bag.
But yes, it does look like she's looking for "something".

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by acropolite

At the risk of starting WWIII, what is it that women say about multitasking....

You are coming up for Astrofest aren't you Phil????
you'll keep

[acropolite (Phil)]

I sure am, I'm packing a grease gun , scuba outfit, handbag and some tools to make or break the multitasking myth....

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

You're on buddy. I'll do that while deciding who I will share my home made chocolate fudge brownies with.