Space junk made an emergency landing in a luxurious country in North Carolina. A team of landscapers working at The Glamping Collective, a mountaintop resort near Asheville in Haywood County, found a large, mysterious object on May 22. NASA confirmed it was part of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, which is scheduled to reach the International … Read more
Space junk made an emergency landing in a luxurious country in North Carolina. A team of landscapers working at The Glamping Collective, a mountaintop resort near Asheville in Haywood County, found a large, mysterious object on May 22. NASA confirmed it was part of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, which is scheduled to reach the International … Read more
A piece of metal found on a remote trail at a luxury camping resort in North Carolina was from a SpaceX Dragon capsule, NASA said, confirming that the mysterious object was yet another piece of space junk that recently landed on Earth. The debris came from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that had reentered Earth’s atmosphere … Read more
The summary Last month, a large piece of space debris was discovered in North Carolina. NASA has confirmed it came from a SpaceX capsule that traveled to the International Space Station and returned in March. The piece came from a part of the vehicle that was discarded and expected to burn up in the atmosphere. … Read more
The trunk, located at the base of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, beneath where the astronauts sit, is typically used to transport cargo. It is covered in solar panels that provide power “during flight and on station,” according to SpaceX’s website. That part of the vehicle is jettisoned shortly before the capsule reenters Earth’s atmosphere. NASA … Read more
NASA has confirmed that pieces of debris found throughout the North Carolina mountains are the remains of SpaceX Crew Dragon hardware that re-entered the atmosphere in May 2024. The largest piece of debris was found on May 22 along a mountain resort hiking trail; it was about the size of a standard car hood and … Read more
NASA has confirmed that pieces of debris found throughout the North Carolina mountains are the remains of SpaceX Crew Dragon hardware that re-entered the atmosphere in May 2024. The largest piece of debris was found on May 22 along a mountain resort hiking trail; it was about the size of a standard car hood and … Read more
A family in Naples, Florida, is filing a claim against NASA for damage to their home after a piece of space debris from the International Space Station tore through their roof earlier this year. NASA confirmed last week that a large piece of debris found along a path in North Carolina last May came from … Read more
Space flight doesn’t usually come to mind when you think of the serene, green mountains of North Carolina. It’s true that NASA built the (now defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia in the early 1960s to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and Apollo … Read more
American news By means of Richard Pollina Published May 25, 2024, 5:48 am ET A glamping groundskeeper came across a bizarre space object along a remote trail in the mountains of North Carolina. Justin Clontz and a colleague were doing maintenance around the Glamping Collective, a luxury campground in Haywood County, when he was “shocked” … Read more