Chicks in Space – Astro Gals Manage to Lose Bag of Tools During Spacewalk

Jasmin Moghbeli (Lt Col, USMC, Diversity Hire) and Loral O’Hara (not really a pilot, in spite of the flight gear and the jet).

While on a mission to the ISS (International Space Station), two of America’s finest gynonauts were sent on some sort of repair mission outside the ISS itself, as reported by the everything nerdy SciTechDaily.com.

That’s when things started going wrong.

Reportedly, the gal pals were actually tasked with two separate tasks;

  1. Replace one of the 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the port solar alpha rotary joint, which allows the arrays to track the Sun and generate electricity to power the station. (In other words, change the batteries.)
  2. Remove and stow a communications electronics box called the Radio Frequency Group. (But wait, there’s more.)

According to Geek Central, only Task #1 was completed, but there wasn’t enough time during the spacewalk to complete the work for Task #2.

Supposedly, NASA is telling the world, “but there was not enough time during the spacewalk to complete the work.”

The shape of thing as they should be.

“Not enough time”? Seriously? How much you want to bet the only reason they left the ISS to begin with was just to “go to the bathroom” so they could bitch and moan about the men they have to spend all that time with in orbit?

But in true chick-fashion, the gals did find something to complain about;

The duo lifted some multilayer insulation to make a better assessment of how to approach the job before replacing the insulation and deferring the task to a future spacewalk.

Of course, they left the problem unrepaired and for someone else to deal with.

But this isn’t the end of the saga from Lower Earth Orbit;

During the activity, one tool bag was inadvertently lost. Flight controllers spotted the tool bag using external station cameras.

Amazingly, NASA also claims;

The tools were not needed for the remainder of the spacewalk.

Riiiiiight.

I for one have a few thoughts and comments.

  • Who was the dumbass who tasked two chicks to fix anything?
  • So, they supposedly ran out of time to make the second repair? Since when do time constraints apply to women?
  • Shockingly, a bag filled with undoubtedly ridiculously over-priced space tools just so happened to float into the nothingness of space with neither gal noticing. You can bet that if that bag had their tampons, that bag would have been velcro-ed, super-glued, and JB Welded to their spacesuits.