I'm speaking out of ignorance here, but..
I'm under the impression that missiles are tall and silos are deep, so the spanner could have fallen a long way before it hit the missile (and been going pretty fast).
(mortduboislacks imagination, doesn't play well with others, Tue 19 May 2009, 1:22,
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