Space junk crashed on a land where North Carolina luxury.
A landscaping crew working at The Glamping Collective, a mountain resort near Asheville in Haywood County, found a large mysterious object on May 22. that NASA The confirmed object is a piece of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule that will reach the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023.
According to one report, a large piece — which was the size of a standard car hood and covered in a carbon fiber weave — was found on a hiking trail, and several other smaller pieces fell in the backyards of nearby homes. by Space.com,
These objects were from “Dragon spacecraft trunk hardware,” which was “predicted to have burned up completely,” ABC 13 Reported in North Carolina.
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SpaceX debris was found on May 22 en route to a mountain luxury resort in North Carolina. (Glamping Collective)
Other pieces SpaceX funded by Elon Musk‘S In its statement, NASA said that pieces of the capsule were found in Canada in February and more recently in Saudi Arabia, around the same time as the fragment in North Carolina.
“NASA is not aware of any structural damage or injuries as a result of these findings,” the space agency said in its statement.
A Florida family faced a similar incident, although this one was a lot scarier, as it involved space junk that didn’t burn up as expected.
In March, a 1.6-pound metal alloy object ripped through the roof and two floors of a building. Naples, Floridabroke into the home while a family member was inside.
“It went through two floors, breaking the roof. It almost killed my son,” homeowner Alejandro Otero said on X.
A stanchion recovered from NASA’s flight support equipment, used to attach International Space Station batteries to cargo pallets. The stanchion survived re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere on March 8, 2024 and hit a home in Naples, Florida. (NASA)
Space debris found en route to a posh mountain resort in North Carolina is the size of a car hood. (Glamping Collective)
The Glamping Collective resort in North Carolina lit up at night. (Glamping Collective)
NASA told Fox News Digital in an earlier email that like the object that crashed in North Carolina, the object that hit the Otero family’s home “will likely heat up and break up during re-entry into the atmosphere.”
There were no injuries in either situation, but Micah Nguyen Worthy, the Otero family’s attorney, said “a ‘near-miss’ situation like this could have been devastating.”
“Space debris is a real and serious issue as space traffic has increased in recent years,” Worthy said.
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NASA said it was “conducting a detailed investigation of the jettison and re-entry analysis to determine why the debris remained alive and to update modeling and analysis.”
“NASA is committed to operating responsibly in low Earth orbit and minimizing as much risk as possible to the safety of people on Earth when space hardware is released.”
In this Saturday, April 24, 2021 photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is seen approaching the International Space Station for docking. (NASA via AP)
Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon are completely different rockets. (NASA)
Furthering Worthy’s point, last week’s explosion of a defunct Russian satellite near the ISS was briefly discussed in a teleconference with NASA and Boeing officials on Friday.
The teleconference with reporters focused mainly on Starliner’s helium leak and faulty thrusters, but officials expressed no concern that satellite debris would reach Earth.
When the pieces narrowly avoided hitting the ISS, the danger was averted.
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The resort marketed the space debris as an attraction.
“We invite you to come and experience it for yourself! Starting Monday, June 3,” the resort said on its website. “The space debris will be on display for you to view at the start of our Sunset Summit Trail!”
A Florida family took a more drastic approach to an object that fell on their home.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on November 9, 2021. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
According to NASA, “As the International Space Station flew 266 miles over the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, an aurora beam streamed from beneath Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft mounted on the forward port of the Harmony module.” (NASA/Matt Dominick)
Worthy filed a claim with NASA on behalf of the Otero family, saying it was an opportunity for NASA to “set an example of what responsible, safe and sustainable space operations should be.”
“If this incident had occurred overseas, and someone in another country had been harmed by space debris as in the Oteros case, the U.S. would be fully responsible for paying for that damage.”
He also urged NASA and the US government to follow the same legal principle.
NASA declined to comment on the pending legal action.
