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"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been circling the Earth for three years.

A piece of hardware that was expected to burn up during entry impacted a Naples home last month.

Since the dawn of human spaceflight more than 60 years ago, around 680 people have been to space. Only about 70 have been American women astronauts.

The four crewmembers spent a half-year on the International Space Station conducting dozens of experiments and science research. NASA's Crew-8 mission relieved them on the orbital outpost last week.

Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will spend about six months on the International Space Station - conducting experiments and research. They'll relieve four people of the Crew-7 mission.

NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload initiative, or CLPS, is changing the way science gets to the moon. By relying on commercial partners, NASA can send more science to the lunar surface and at a much faster rate. Jim Gregory, Dean of the College of Engineering at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, said the CLPS initiative will have a positive trickle down effect on the Space Coast economy.

The Falcon rocket headed south over the Atlantic from Cape Canaveral to achieve a rare polar orbit. It will spend at least three years studying the oceans from 420 miles up, as well as the atmosphere.

Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it.

The spacecraft making the 1.8 billion mile journey will have a poem etched into its surface. NASA is inviting the public to include their names.

NASA plans to use Starship to bring astronauts to the lunar surface. But first, it faces a key test flight.

The young scientists from Viera wanted to learn whether a component in horseshoe blood can detect bacteria in space. Judges selected the project to ride up in a SpaceX rocket to the ISS.

The ancient black dust and chunks are from the carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu, almost 60 million miles away.