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Space junk? Object found in North Carolina believed to be from SpaceX mission

Debris likely the trunk of Dragon capsule

In this image made from NASA TV video, the SpaceX Dragon capsule is retrieved from the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Panhandle early Sunday, May 2, 2021. SpaceX returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. (NASA TV via AP) (Uncredited)

CLYDE, N.C. – A piece of debris recently discovered in North Carolina is believed to be space junk from a recent SpaceX mission, FoxWeather reported.

The singed piece of 3-feet-wide debris was found by an employee of The Glamping Collective, a company that operates cabins and other facilities on a private mountaintop about 20 minutes west of Asheville.

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According to FoxWeather, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, warned on May 21 that the trunk from the SpaceX Dragon that carried Crew-7 astronauts to the space station was returning to Earth about two months after the crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico.

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No injuries were reported in connection with the suspected piece of space junk.

Earlier this year, a piece of hardware from the International Space Station crashed through the roof of a Florida home.

A Naples man said his son was in the home when the freak accident occurred, but no one was hurt.

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