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A piece of trash intentionally jettisoned from the International Space Station struck a home in Naples, Florida, according to the federal agency.This undated handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022 shows the International Space Station during its fly. A piece of garbage jettisoned from the International Space Station unexpectedly survived a fiery reentry from orbit last month and pierced the roof of a home in Florida, according to NASA.
“It was a tremendous sound. It almost hit my son,” Alejandro Otero, who identified himself as the homeowner, told CNN affiliate WINK News in March, days after the incident. “He was two rooms over and heard it all.” 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 Monday.
The garbage “will orbit Earth between two to four years before burning up harmlessly,” NASA said when the pallet was But the debris that struck Otero’s house was the result of miscalculations about how space garbage would behave.
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