"we do lose things occasionally on the space station"

[grandpa]

I had to chuckle a little at that line. Here's one version of the story [chron.com]. Astronauts are banned from spacewalking at the space station until further notice. Suspect aluminum rails and missing canisters of lithium hydroxide are the reason.

Seriously, how far away can something float inside the space station? I haven't been there myself, but I would imagine that it could be considered a "contained environment". I dunno... suddenly I feel a lot better about all the missing/misplaced stuff we have around here.

[gamiziuk]

The equipment probably drifted off into e-Space [amazon.com]...