Lost in space: astronaut’s toolbag orbits Earth after escaping during spacewalk

Nasa astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, top, and Loral O’Hara (bottom) team up during their first spacewalk for maintenance on the outside of the space station. Photograph: Nasa TV

Skywatchers have a new space object to train their sights on: a toolbag that is now floating through space around Earth.

The Nasa astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara were conducting a rare all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on 1 November when their toolbag gave them the slip, according to Nasa.