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November 18th, 2008
Posted: 04:56 PM ET
By Kate Tobin (CNN) — Things didn’t go quite according to plan for astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper during her spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday. First, a grease gun inside her tool bag leaked, coating everything inside with a film of lubricant. While she was trying to clean it up in the absence of gravity, the whole bag floated away. Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen are outside the space station on the first spacewalk of the space shuttle Endeavour’s stay at the station. After completing a a few preliminary tasks, Stefanyshyn-Piper was beginning the job of cleaning and lubricating the gears of the stations malfunctioning starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, or SARJ, when she discovered the grease gun leak and then lost the bag. |
 
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