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Old 26-November-2008, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by danscope View Post
I find it hard to believe that they train for that long and with that much intensity to do a precise and dedicated job and can't seem to secure a tool bag in situ.
Part of the problem is that the grease gun in the kit had leaked all over everything in the kit, and the astronaut was trying to cope with that when the kit got away from her. I don't think a bag full of greasy tools is part of the training.
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You put the entire mission at risk if you lose the tools to do the job.
In this case, the kit was not unique. They were able to complete the work using other tool kits.

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