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CTOnews.com, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) A NASA astronaut accidentally released a tool bag during repairs to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month.

On November 2, NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara carried out some ISS repairs. During the six-hour and 42-minute spacewalk, one of the two astronauts accidentally released a tool bag they had been using and floated it into space. The ground control center later found the bag on the camera of the external space station, but determined that its orbit did not pose a risk to the space station or its crew.

The bag is expected to float in front of the space station for several months and then eventually burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

CTOnews.com noted that this is not the first time astronauts have accidentally released objects into deep space. Astronauts have made such mistakes at least four times.

In 2017, two astronauts lost an item they needed to do ISS work during a spacewalk: a bag containing a fabric debris shield, which was used to cover an access point. After the 18-pound bag was lost, the mission control team on Earth had to quickly find another solution to avoid exposing the access point, and they quickly cobbled together a substitute with other materials.

On November 18, 2008, NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefani Sheen-Piper (Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper) was carrying out repairs outside ISS when she accidentally let her tool bag float away. The bag was worth $100000. When a grease gun in the bag began to leak and Stefani Sheen Piper tried to clean it, the bag floated out of her hand. Stefani Sheen-Piper said in an interview after the accident that she had considered jumping up and grabbing the bag. "then I realized that it would only make things worse, and then we would have two floating objects, one of which was me. So the best way is to let go."

In 1965, Ed White, the first American space walker, lost a glove in space, nearly 60 years ago. On June 3, 1965, White came out of the Gemini 4 spacecraft and floated in space for 20 minutes, but while the door was still open, one of his spare gloves floated out and flew into space.

It's not just NASA. In May, when Russian astronauts Sergei Prokopiev and Dmitri Petelin were on a spacewalk outside ISS, Prokopiev threw an 11-pound bag with remaining equipment into the abyss. "it flew beautifully," he said. Some criticized Prokopiev for littering, but ISS later tweeted that the bag would "burn up harmlessly in the Earth's atmosphere."

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