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For a highly trained astronaut that "oops" in the video seemed extremely careless.
Highly trained astronaut doesn't mean much. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak Nobody's perfect and nobody is infallible and that includes highly trained astronauts. Short of this being done on purpose (hard to believe to begin with) I'd just chalk it up to an accident.
Anyone got a link to an official report detailing what happened? The article is kinda light on details, but I assume this is a major mishap that can only happen if multiple things go wrong simultaneously? Everything m they do up there is a precisely choreographed dance so it would be interesting to read a technical report on that.
Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's everything I needed to know about the situation.
> "The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk." Could have left that in drafts
So could have the NY times couple of years ago with > Why NASA's First All-Women Spacewalk Made History And we have articles in space.com just a week ago >Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct 4th-ever all-female spacewalk today If all female walks are news, then fuck ups during all female space walks are also news worth pointing.
This doesn't read like that though
It reads like “looll some women did something incompetent! get a load of this guys”
Military officers, brilliant scientists, physically fit and operating in perhaps the most demanding environment we've asked of the human body... and all anyone remembers is they dropped the spanner.
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Highly trained astronaut doesn't mean much. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak Nobody's perfect and nobody is infallible and that includes highly trained astronauts. Short of this being done on purpose (hard to believe to begin with) I'd just chalk it up to an accident.
You're comparing an emotional breakdown to not securing a toolbox?
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Highly trained astronaut doesn't mean much. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak Nobody's perfect and nobody is infallible and that includes highly trained astronauts. Short of this being done on purpose (hard to believe to begin with) I'd just chalk it up to an accident.
You're comparing an emotional breakdown to not securing a toolbox?
I'm not suggesting that it's similar in any way to losing a toolbox. Lisa's entire situation was clearly something very different, you're right about that, but an emotional breakdown (while not a precise medical term) is typically used to describe an episode or outburst caused by too much stress/pressure. It's strange to see it used for a series of premeditated crimes that took months, involved lots of planning, careful packing, and a journey of 900 miles by car to reach the victim.
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So could have the NY times couple of years ago with > Why NASA's First All-Women Spacewalk Made History And we have articles in space.com just a week ago >Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct 4th-ever all-female spacewalk today If all female walks are news, then fuck ups during all female space walks are also news worth pointing.
I sort of agree, if it was merely matter of fact This doesn't read like that though It reads like “looll some women did something incompetent! get a load of this guys”
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So could have the NY times couple of years ago with > Why NASA's First All-Women Spacewalk Made History And we have articles in space.com just a week ago >Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct 4th-ever all-female spacewalk today If all female walks are news, then fuck ups during all female space walks are also news worth pointing.
I sort of agree, if it was merely matter of fact This doesn't read like that though It reads like “looll some women did something incompetent! get a load of this guys”
I don't think the article was written that way, but I think that it's clear that's how many people would take it.
It'd have been nice if the article had listed multiple examples of things being lost during spacewalks and not just the other time a woman did it - assuming there are other previous examples anyway. Searching for that kind of information now is difficult since search engines just want to push whatever the latest story is. A google search for the word "astronauts" alone returns links to news articles about this incident.
I know what the historical present is but its use here is confusing. Just use "dropped." If the headline needs the present use "leave".