NASA takes ownership of space junk that crashed into Florida home
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— A Florida homeowner was treated to a shocking surprise when a jettisoned piece of metal from the International Space Station crashed into his home in March. On Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed the space station was the source of the debris. The debris "tore through the roof" of Alejandro Otero's home on March 8, passing through two floors and nearly hitting his son, the Naples resident said in a March 15 post on X. A month later, NASA released a public...
The Guardian—Nasa confirms metal chunk that crashed into Florida home was space junk. Cylinder slab that tore through Naples home last month was debris released from International Space Station in 2021A heavy chunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a Florida home is, in fact, space junk, Nasa has confirmed.The federal space agency said that a cylinder slab that tore through a house in Naples, Florida, last month was debris from a cargo pallet released from the international space station in 2021, according to a Nasa blogpost. Continue reading
TheHill—Chunk of International Space Station crashed into Florida home: NASA. A chunk of the International Space Station that was released three years ago crashed into a Florida home last month, according to NASA’s Monday news release. A cargo pallet was released from the space station in March 2021. It was filled with aging batteries. When released, it was supposed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere
Neowin—NASA confirms space junk from ISS crashed through a house in Florida. In March, a Florida man was alerted by his son after an unknown object crashed through two layers of the ceiling of their house. It turned out the object was released from the ISS three years ago.