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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