The space agency determined that the material was a metal alloy stanchion used on “NASA flight support equipment.”
A robotic arm at the International Space Station is seen releasing a pallet packed with batteries in 2021. NASA says a metal alloy stanchion from that flight equipment is what landed in a Florida home.
The claim against NASA, which was filed last month, seeks damages including non-insured property damage loss, emotional and mental anguish and other damages.in a blog post in April that a “space object” recovered from the Oteros’ home was involved in a March 2021 operation aboard the International Space Station.a 5,800-pound cargo pallet of old nickel hydride batteries that it expected to orbit Earth for two to four years before burning up in the atmosphere.
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