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. Leaving this task for a future spacewalk, the pair instead conducted an assessment of how the job could be done. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty ImagesDuring the their 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. A 2006 spacewalk saw astronauts Piers Sellers and Michael Fossum lose a 14-inch spatula while testing a method of repairing the space shuttle.

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Persons: Jasmin Moghbeli, O’Hara, Loral O'Hara, Vyacheslav Oseledko, “, EarthSky, Heide, Piers Sellers, Michael Fossum Organizations: CNN, NASA, Space, International Space Station, European Space Agency Locations: stow, Kazakhstan, AFP