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| Astronaut loses camera during spacewalk |
| Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | by Eamon Hickey |
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In a
move that will be familiar to anyone who's ever lost track of their
camera for a moment, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams didn't get her
digital SLR properly clipped to her spacesuit during a 7-hour spacewalk
on Saturday. Without gravity to corral it, the camera was soon a
fugitive, and the amusing video clip inevitably made it to YouTube.
The
spacewalk was part of an effort to free a stuck solar array on the
International Space Station. It's not clear whether Williams's tool
belt clip failed or the camera got loose by other means, but its
trajectory is being studied by debris analysts, according to a story at
Space.com (see the very end of the article).
It's impossible to tell for sure from the video what model of camera it was, and we couldn't find that information in any of the news stories, but from its shape we're guessing it was one of the Kodak DCS models that NASA is known to make heavy use of.
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