The Hit Farm

“Since the dawn of the Space Age, no one has been injured by falling space debris. The only confirmed case of a person being hit by space junk was in 1997 when Lottie Williams of Tulsa, Okla., was grazed in the shoulder by However, it is now believed that pieces of space junk weighing up [...]

Miami (CNN) — A satellite whose orbit is degrading will fall back to Earth Friday afternoon, but only some of its pieces will survive the fiery ride through the atmosphere, NASA scientists said Thursday. By Alec Liu A defunct NASA satellite is set to plunge to Earth, with a 1-in-3200 chance that someone could get [...]

A 6-ton piece of space junk hurdling toward Earth is creating quite a buzz, including causing FEMA to create an emergency management plan in case the school-bus. FILED UNDER: Life in the Military, falling satellite, Fox News, Joint Space Operations Center of US Strategic Command, NASA, satellite tracker, space debris, space junk, space junk tracker, [...]

Just when we thought it was safe to go outside and get on with the business of autumn, we learn that a 6.3-ton piece of space junk, roughly the size of a school bus, is about to leave its orbit and fall somewhere — no one knows where — on planet We know that at [...]