From The Inquisitor:
Floating tool bag spotted in night sky
How did we miss this earlier! The floating tool bag, the set of tools lost by Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper during a spacewalk to repair a part of the international space station last week has been spotted in the night sky over Ontario, Canada.
Kevin Fetter video taped the bag through a high-powered telescope, and naturally the footage has made its way online.
NASA told reporters that they’d like to retrieve the bag, but are mostly concerned at the moment that it might end up slamming into one of the solar panels on the international space station.
Unfortunately there has been no sign of the missing spider yet.
Footage as follows. It’s not terribly exciting, but we are looking at a tool bag in the sky, which is somewhat amazing in itself.
Here is the YouTube video referenced in the article above, with blurb. If it looks like it is only 4 seconds long, that is because it is only 4 seconds long.
This is a live shot of the lost tool bag dropped by astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper during a recent Space Shuttle mission.
This was taken from an amateur astronomer's backyard telescope, and was also visible to the naked eye. The tool bag is the bright white spot that moves right to left in a slightly diagonal trajectory across the shot.
Here is a raw video of the tool bag getting lost (from Associated Press on November 18):
