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A brilliant fireball created by falling space junk from a Chinese Long March 7 rocket lit up the skies over Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho and California late Thursday, July 27, 2016. This still image is from a video captured by observer Matt Holt in Utah, Credit:Matt Holt @mholt6 The ...
January 28, 2025 Florida Legislators BLOW IT!: If you haven't heard about how the Florida Legislators have ROYALLY SCREWED UP you're in for the same kind of shock I had when I read the story. They caved to the LEFTIES and gave themselves a RAISE in the same session! All but ONE ...
The chance of a shuttle crash -- which turned out to be 1 in 25 -- was set by NASA, before the Challenger disaster, at 1 in 100,000. Another section of this report says that "operational procedures will be developed to minimize the possibility of inadvertent Earth reentry occurring durin...
Space-Junk Strike in Florida Signals New Era of Orbital Debris – Three years ago astronauts threw out the largest piece of trash ever tossed from the International Space Station. Now some of it has punched a hole through a house in Naples, Fla. ...
NASA confirmed Monday that a mystery object thatcrashed through the roof of a Florida home last monthwas a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station. The cylindrical object that tore through the home in Naples on March 8 was subsequently taken to the Kennedy...
NASA says a 1.6-pound metal object recently hit a Florida family's house — three years after it entered Earth's atmosphere.
How a Piece of Space Junk (Allegedly) Smashed Through a Florida Home In the days leading up to March 8, a number of agencies around the world were watching as a piece of space junk wound its way toward the planet. The debris in question was a pallet of used batteries jettisoned from ...
A couple of weeks back we featureda story(third item) about a chunk of space jetsam that tried to peacefully return to Earth, only to find a Florida family’s roof rudely in the way. The 700-gram cylinder of Inconel was all that was left of a 2,360-kg battery pack that was tossed...