re: here's the story
The mishap was caused because 24 bolts were missing from a fixture in the “turn over cartâ€. Two errors occurred. First, technicians from another satellite program that uses the same type of “turn over cart†removed the 24 bolts from the NOAA cart on September 4 without proper documentation. Second, the NOAA team working today failed to follow the procedure to verify the configuration of the NOAA “turn over cart†since they had used it a few days earlier.
Somebody "borrowed" the bolts?
You'd think both carts could have had their own sets of bolts.