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NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara marked their first
spacewalk this month with a tool bag floating through space.

The pair concluded their maintenance work outside the International
Space Station (ISS) in six hours and 42 minutes, according to the
space agency.

The spacewalk on November 1 saw Moghbeli and O’Hara complete works
on the station’s solar arrays, which track the sun, but they ran out
of time to remove and stow a communications electronics box. Leaving
this task for a future spacewalk, the pair instead conducted an
assessment of how the job could be done.

During the hours-long mission, a tool bag gave them the slip and was
“lost,” NASA said, with flight controllers spotting it using the
ISS’ external cameras. Fortunately, the tools were not required for
the remainder of their tasks.

“Mission Control analyzed the bag’s trajectory and determined that
risk of recontacting the station is low and that the onboard crew
and space station are safe with no action required,” NASA said on
its official blog.

According to EarthSky, a website tracking cosmic events, the tool
bag is currently orbiting Earth ahead of the ISS, and can
potentially be spotted from Earth with a pair of binoculars during
the next few months until it disintegrates in our planet’s
atmosphere.

This isn’t the first time an astronaut has lost tools in space. In
2008, Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper’s bag floated away while she was
cleaning and lubricating gears on a malfunctioning rotary joint. A
2006 spacewalk saw astronauts Piers Sellers and Michael Fossum lose
a 14-inch spatula while testing a method of repairing the space
shuttle.

Space debris or junk, like these objects, are artificial materials
that orbit Earth but are no longer functional. They can be anything
from a small chip of paint to parts discarded during rocket
launches.

In September 2023, the European Space Agency estimated 35,290
objects were being tracked and cataloged by the various space
surveillance networks, with the total mass of objects orbiting Earth
amounting to more than 11,000 tons.

Always an incompetent cunt assigned to work better suited to males.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/world/astronauts-drop-tool-bag-iss-
spacewalk-intl-scn-scli/index.html

On 11/13/23 13:41, Incompetent Biden female personnel misassignments wrote:
> In article <uitgmp$mok7$9@dont-email.me>
> loser <elonx@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara marked their first
> spacewalk this month with a tool bag floating through space. ------
>
> Always an incompetent cunt assigned to work better suited to males.
>

Because we all know, no All American 'he-man' ever dropped a tool bag!
Ever!!

How about this story, of a female, and also, she was Black.

Katherine Johnson
26 August 1918 – 24 February 2020
NASA mathematician who helped get the US into space
By Layal Liverpool

Katherine Johnson
David C. Bowman NASA, Langley

Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician whose calculations helped the
US get an astronaut into orbit for the first time. She also played a
crucial role in calculations for the first moon landing.

US astronaut John Glenn, who orbited Earth three times in 1962 before
returning safely, famously insisted that the calculations behind his
trajectory be double-checked by Johnson before he took off.

Early life
Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, Johnson excelled
academically from an early age. She finished high school at the age of
14 and graduated summa cum laude from West Virginia State College with a
double major in mathematics and French aged 18.

Following a brief stint working as a public school teacher, Johnson
became the first African American woman admitted to graduate school at
West Virginia University, enrolling in the graduate mathematics programme.

Space race
In 1953, Johnson started working at the all-Black West Area Computing
section of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory at the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which would later become the space
agency NASA. In addition to the computing pool, the toilets and
cafeteria at Langley were also racially segregated at the time. Johnson
refused to use the “colored” toilets and ate lunch at her desk.

Within two weeks of working at Langley, Johnson’s talent landed her a
position in the Flight Research Division. Over the next four years, she
worked alongside aeronautical engineers analysing data from flight
tests. At the same time, the space race between the US and the Soviet
Union was heating up.

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 – the first artificial
Earth satellite – and in April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the
first person to journey into space and orbit Earth. Meanwhile, at NACA
(which had since become NASA), Johnson had been working on the
trajectory analysis for the US’s first human space flight. In May 1961,
astronaut Alan Shepard became the first US citizen and second person in
the world to go to space.

Less than a year later, NASA was preparing for the mission that would
see Glenn become the first US astronaut to orbit Earth in February 1962.
The agency was relying on a network of computers, programmed with
orbital equations that would control the trajectory of Glenn’s capsule.
As part of the pre-flight checklist, Glenn asked engineers to “get the
girl” – referring to Johnson – insisting that she run the numbers
through the same equations by hand to check the computer’s calculations.
“If she says they’re good, then I’m ready to go,” Johnson recalled the
astronaut saying.

Johnson went on to join the Space Mechanics Division, where she
calculated the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon and
worked on key calculations that helped synchronise the mission’s lunar
lander with the moon-orbiting command and service module. Her work
helped the US become the first country to land a person on the moon on
20 July 1969.

Johnson died in Newport News, Virginia, on 24 February 2020 at the age
of 101.

Legacy
During her career, Johnson authored multiple research papers and
received numerous awards and accolades, including the 2015 US
Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Barack Obama. In
2016, NASA named a new computational research facility after her.

Johnson’s story was featured in Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden
Figures, as well as in the 2016 film of the same name. In the film,
which tells the story of Johnson and two other African American women –
Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – who worked as NASA mathematicians
during the space race, Johnson is portrayed by actor Taraji P. Henson.

Following the news of her death, the then NASA administrator James
Bridenstine described Johnson as “an American hero”, adding that “her
pioneering legacy will never be forgotten”.

Key facts
Full name: Katherine Johnson (born Creola Katherine Coleman)

Born: 26 August 1918, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US

Died: 24 February 2020, Newport News, Virginia, US

Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician famous for her brilliant
calculations, which helped the US land astronauts on the moon during the
space race.