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The space agency said it was a metal support used to mount old batteries on a cargo pallet for disposal. NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through roof of Florida home came from space ...
After analyzing the piece of debris at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA confirmed it was indeed a piece of discarded space station cargo, according to a statement released by the agency on ...
March 8: A 0.7 kilograms (1.5 lb) piece of space junk that survived reentry has impacted a house in Naples, Florida. No people were harmed. NASA later confirmed the object to be an inconel stanchion that was a part of a cargo pallet with old batteries jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021.
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — NASA says it's investigating whether an object that crashed into the roof of a home in southwest Florida last month came from the international space station.
During debris recovery efforts following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Forest Service employee Charles Krenek of Lufkin, Texas and Pilot Jules F. 'Buzz' Mier, Jr. of Arizona were killed when their Bell 407 search chopper crashed in San Augustine County, Texas near the town of Broaddus.
[120] [121] After earlier plans of SpaceX to use new capsules for every crewed flight for NASA [122] both agreed to reuse Crew Dragon capsules for NASA flights. [123] [124] In 2022, SpaceX stated that a capsule can be reused up to fifteen times. [125] Crew Dragon spacecraft can spend up to a week in free flight without being docked to the ISS ...
A piece of metal that crashed through a Florida home was a piece of space junk from the International Space Station, according to NASA.
STS-51-D was the 16th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the fourth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. [2] The launch of STS-51-D from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, on April 12, 1985, was delayed by 55 minutes, after a boat strayed into the restricted Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) recovery zone. STS-51-D was the third shuttle ...