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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man
To Ara: The tool kit is a lot less dense, and a lot less massive, than the ISS, so it experiences a lot more drag from (the extremely thin) atmosphere in that orbit. So it will come down a lot faster.
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It is? I know it's small, and the bag itself is probably light, but I would think that with tool shafts of forged steel or aluminum or titanium it would still be as dense as or denser than the cylindrical segments of the ISS.