‘It Was A Very Cool Experience’: Texas Woman Watches NASA Equipment Crash-Land On Neighbor’s Farm

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What do an Australian sheep farm, a mountain resort in North Carolina, and a farm in rural Texas have in common? All of these sites, and many more across the world, have fallen victim to space debris. This type of space junk includes man-made objects in low Earth orbit that have the potential to cause damage here on Earth. We’re not talking about disaster movie-level destruction, though there have been a few close calls, but pieces of satellites, rockets, and other space craft.