ABC News reporter Adriane Reardon called out SpaceX CEO and billionaire Elon Musk, and his team on Twitter after pieces of the SpaceX capsule crashed landed back onto Earth and trashed a farmer's property in Australia.
Reporter Calls Out Musk
According to Bloomberg, Mick Miners, the farmer who owns the property south of Jindabyne, was shocked to find pieces of space junk across his fields.
On Aug. 2, ABC reporter Adriane Reardon called out Musk on Twitter, calling him to "come and clean up his mess."
Reardon asked if anyone from Musk's team was coming forward to "collect the pieces of SpaceX debris" that had fallen when it crash landed.
A section from the SpaceX Crew-1 craft that measures around three meters was discovered speared into the ground after Miners went to investigate a loud crashing sound that his daughters heard.
Brad Tucker, an Australian National University space expert, told radio host Ben Fordham that he was called out to investigate the discovery.
On Ben Fordham Live on Aug. 1, Tucker said that what they discovered on Miners' farm was "definitely a space junk."
Tucker said that SpaceX has a capsule that takes humans into space, but there is a bottom part, so when the astronauts return, they leave that part in space before the capsule lands back on Earth.
The three-meter part of SpaceX has been in space since 2020 and was beginning to de-orbit. The initial plan was to have it come down on Earth and hit the atmosphere so it would break apart and land in the ocean instead.
According to Telegraph UK, several people saw an explosion and heard the crash when the debris landed on Miners' farm.
Tucker said that they saw pieces of the debris land in the ocean, but some had not because the piece was speared into the ground from space.
Tucker said that the debris had landed a long way from Miners' home, which was why it took some time to find its actual location.
He said that the debris looked like a burnt tree from a distance, but when they got closer, they saw that it was from the capsule.
Capsule Debris in Other Properties
According to The New York Post, Miners is not the only one who found space junk on his property. His neighbor, called Jock, also found pieces of SpaceX on his land.
Tucker confirmed that the Australian Space Agency is now handling the issue because there is an actual legal protocol, but the complaint will be handed over the SpaceX.
If SpaceX wants to retrieve pieces of its SpaceX capsule from the properties, the space company will have to pay Miners and Jock for damages.
But if the company refuses to pay the farmers, both of them can keep the space junk, and they have the option to keep them or sell them as there are a lot of people who collect space junk, and the money that they can get from selling the debris can cover the damages on their properties.
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Written by Sophie Webster
