Two astronauts lost a tool bag while doing maintenance work outside the International Space Station earlier this month. Now it’s floating along through space near the ISS.

Houston area high school students will present to NASA training equipment they built for International Space Station astronauts in a 10 a.m. Monday, April 30, ceremony at Chaves High School.

HOUSTON — Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check all their tethers to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn’t float ...

Two astronauts working on the International Space Station accidentally lost a tool bag that is now floating 250 miles above Earth and can be seen by eager stargazers, contributing to a collection ...

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli departs for the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Aug. 26. A spacewalk by Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara resulted in accidentally leaving a tool bag floating in space.

An astronaut’s tool bag that accidentally floated away during a routine spacewalk at the International Space Station is now orbiting Earth and may be bright enough to spot by keen-eyed skywatchers.

An astronaut tool bag dropped during a spacewalk can be seen orbiting Earth on Nov. 2, 2023. (Image credit: NASA/JSC) Some astronomy targets are less celestial in nature than others.

During a space walk at the International Space Station, astronauts lost hold of a bag of tools. It'll be visible from Earth until it burns up in the 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.