Family suing NASA after space debris from ISS crashed through their home [Video]

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NAPLES, Fla. (WJW) – A Florida family is suing NASA after space debris from the International Space Station crash through their roof earlier this year.

The cylindrical metal object hit Alejandro Otero’s home in Naples on March 8. His son, who was home at the time, found the space junk had torn through the roof and damaged the floor.

After the crash, the object was taken to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In a blog post, NASA later confirmed the object was part of flight support equipment used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.

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NASA ground controllers used a robotic arm on the International Space Station to release the cargo pallet after new lithium-ion batteries were installed. The blog postsaid, although the hardware was supposed to burn up in the atmosphere, a piece of the …