Nasa has confirmed a piece of space junk that fell through the roof of a man’s house was trash from the International Space Station (ISS).
The 10cm piece of metal, which weighed just 0.7kg, smashed its way through two floors of the Florida home after surviving a fiery re-entry on March 8.
The space agency said it was a metal support used to mount old batteries on a cargo pallet for disposal.
The pallet was jettisoned from the space station in 2021, and the load was expected to eventually fully burn up on entry into Earth’s atmosphere, but one piece survived.
Alejandro Otero, the unlucky homeowner whose house was struck, shared security footage which captured the sound of the space junk crashing back to Earth on X, formerly Twitter.
‘Tore through the roof and went through two floors,’ he wrote. ‘Almost hit my son.’
Mr Otero said at the time he had been unable to contact Nasa to …