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Who pays in a space fender bender (when stuff falls from the sky)?

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This support came from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount the International Space Station batteries on a cargo pallet. The upright survived reentry through Earth's atmosphere on March 8, 2024, hitting a house in Naples, Florida.

When a Florida family filed a claim against NASA earlier this year over “space debris” that fell through their roof, it launched a potentially precedent-setting question: Who is liable if debris from space causes damage or injury? No one was injured when a cylindrical object that was part of a pallet of spent batteries from … Read more

Tests range from explosions to splashdown

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SpaceX's Starship is launching on its fourth test flight on the way to creating jumbo rockets that can fly astronauts to the moon and even Mars.

SpaceX’s Starship, the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever sent into space, completed a fourth test flight Thursday, successfully crashing into the Indian Ocean for the first time since it began conducting test flights last year. The rocket’s first three tests ended in explosions. The unmanned craft is classified as a super-heavy launch vehicle and … Read more