Scientists researching ways to recycle space debris A bag of tools lost by NASA astronauts during a space walk is now orbiting around Earth.

The astronauts lost track of the bag while performing maintenance outside the International Space Station this month. Now it’s floating in space.

The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk Nov. 1 as they performed maintenance on the International Space Station, according to social ...

Now space junk, it has since been catalogued with the ID: 58229 / 1998-067WC. Have astronauts dropped things in space before? Sadly it's not the first tool bag lost in space.

Every construction worker who ever accidentally left their tools at their worksite now has something in common with NASA astronauts, who lost a tool bag worth $100,000 during a spacewalk on Nov. 1.

Two NASA astronauts, Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, were conducting the first all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 2 when a tool bag slipped, according to ...

In 2008, a briefcase-sized tool bag came untethered and drifted away from astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper as she performed maintenance on the space station’s solar panels.

A bag of tools that drifted away from astronauts on Nov. 1 while on a maintenance spacewalk outside the International Space Station is in a slowing orbit around the Earth – and for now is giving ...

Astronauts were performing updates on the International Space Station when they lost their grip on a bag of tools.

On Nov. 2, NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara were conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station, when they dropped the bag.

In 2008, a briefcase-sized tool bag came untethered and drifted away from astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper as she performed maintenance on the space station’s solar panels.

The bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut and NASA estimated its value was about $100,000. Astronauts have lost other items in space, too.