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The $100,000 tool bag still orbiting Earth

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Because cluttering our own planet simply wasn't enough, humanity has started trashing the cosmos. In 2008, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper let a $100,000 tool bag slip from her grasp during an ISS spacewalk. It instantly became a new, incredibly expensive mini-satellite that professional astronomers actually had to actively track to avoid catastrophic orbital collisions.

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