2023-11-17 13:21:48
Exclusive – Marwa Al-Battah Perhaps seeing a surprisingly bright tool bag floating through the space surrounding Earth is very fun. The tool bag gave NASA astronauts Yasmine Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara a chance on November 2, 2023, while they were on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). . The kit now orbits our planet just ahead of the International Space Station, and has an optical magnitude of about 6, meaning it is slightly dimmer than ice giant Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. As a result, the bag – officially known as the Crew Lock Bag – is a little too dim to be seen with the naked eye, but sky watchers should be able to catch it with binoculars. To see it for yourself, the bag should float two to four minutes before the station, and with its rapid descent, the bag will likely disintegrate when it reaches an altitude of about 70 miles (113 kilometers) above Earth. ESA standby astronaut Megan Christian shared footage of the moment the tool bag escaped Moghbeli’s grip on her X account. She added that Crew-7 astronaut Satoshi Furukawa had last seen the bag in it. time while floating high above Mount Fuji. Also in McDowell also explained that the bag was also given its own classification in the US Space Force’s indexing system for artificial objects in orbit, officially designated 58229/1998–067WC. It is worth noting that this is not even the first tool bag to reach orbit. In 2008, when NASA astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper tried to fix a broken piece of equipment on a solar panel on the International Space Station, she lost her grip on another tool bag and then spun. About our planet. As is the case with the spoon that the late NASA astronaut Pierce Sellers lost while using it to spread the gunk to repair the heat shield during the space shuttle Discovery’s STS-121 flight in 2006.
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