NASA to probe if object that hit US home came from ISS
NASA says it is investigating whether an object that crashed into the roof of a home in southwest Florida last month came from the international space station.
Workers for the US space agency picked up the object from the homeowner in Naples, Florida, last week and took it to the Kennedy Space Center, across the state in Cape Canaveral, where it is being analysed to determine its origin, NASA spokesman Josh Finch said on Thursday in an email.
“More information will be available once the analysis is complete,” Finch said.
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The object pierced the roof of a home owned by Alejandro Otero on March 8.
He told television station WINK that he was notified by his son about the crashing object while he was on holiday.
He came back early to check it out and found a cylindrical-shaped object weighing nearly one kilogram that had ripped through his ceiling and torn up the flooring.
“I was shaking. I was completely in disbelief. What are the chances of something landing on my house with such force to cause so much damage,” Otero said.
“I’m super grateful that nobody got hurt”
