Silver Plated Cane

I was talking to a female astronaut while she was in space.  She showed me some of the things she had brought in space with her and one of them was a silver plated cane like you would use for walking.  It had belonged to her father so it was very valuable to her.  Something went wrong with her space ship so she had to bail out and parachute to earth.  She jumped out and took her cane with her.  I remember thinking it would take several hours to parachute to earth but since she was an astronaut she could handle that.  When the parachute finally opened it ripped the cane out of her hand and it fell to earth separately.  It also ripped off her space helmet and her hair spilled out all over her shoulders.  She had long beautiful hair.  The cane landed is some swampy water and several people went to retrieve it.  One person found it and I tried to tell them it belonged to the astronaut.  The person showed me it could not possibly belong to the astronaut because it was not a cane at all it was a silver plate that had a train engraved on it.  It was not silver at all but aluminum.  I remember thinking to myself it's not an antique.  Then the person showed me the real purpose of the plate.  It was an accessory to be used with snow shoes.  It was filled with oil and the motion of walking allowed a lever to move up and down and release one drop of oil at each step.  The oil ran down the side of the plate.  The astronaut strapped the plate on her back and started to walk around.  It was quite bulky and hard to walk.  She walked along a wall and knocked off some of the plaster because it was so difficult to walk.