This Friday it was learned that an American family is demanding financial compensation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) after a piece of space debris fell on his home in Florida.
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As reported in a statement by the law firm ‘Cranfill Sumner’the family sued the space agency to pay them more than $80,000 after a fragment of space debris that fell from space passed through the roof of their home.
The space debris problem has grown along with the increase in space traffic and NASA’s response could set a precedent for how future claims are handled, the law firm said.
On March 8, a 700-gram object hit Alejandro Otero’s house in Naples, Florida, causing a hole in the roof.
A month later, the POT confirmed that the object that fell from the sky and crashed into the home of a US citizen turned out to be debris ejected from the International Space Station (ISS).
According to the space agency, the object that fell and collided with the American citizen’s house Alejandro Oterolast month, corresponds to an amount from NASA’s flight support team.
The strange story went viral last month when Otero said that an object that fell from the sky suddenly hit his house and almost hurt his 8-year-old son in the state of Florida.
“Immediately, I thought of a meteorite. I was shaking, in complete disbelief. What are the chances of something falling into my house with that much force and causing that much damage?”Otero said.
Through his X account, formerly Twitter, the citizen recounted what happened in more detail, pointing out that the “The object went through the roof of my house in Naples and also the second floor, and almost hit my son. Could you help me get NASA to connect with me? I have left messages and emails unanswered.”
This event occurred just when there were predictions of an atmospheric ignition “from a fragment of a space cargo platform carrying old batteries that was discarded from the orbital outpost in 2021, making it a likely match.”
After learning the story, NASA collected the object to evaluate it and carry out the corresponding analyses.
The results showed that said object is actually rubble, “a NASA flight support equipment strut used to place batteries on the charging pad.”
Furthermore, the object is made “made of the metal alloy Inconel, it weighs 0.7 kilograms, measures 10 centimeters in height and 4 centimeters in diameter.”
