Barry Sawchuk doesn’t usually concern himself with space or the final frontier. The 66-year-old Saskatchewan farmer is much more focused on seeding. But when he found a giant piece of debris in his fields, Sawchuk said he was shocked to learn it was likely part of a rocket.
Barry Sawchuk found a giant piece of suspected space debris, as shown in this handout image provided by Sawchuk, in the field of his farm located near Ituna, Sask., on Feb. 28, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Barry Sawchuk *MANDATORY CREDIT*Barry Sawchuk doesn’t usually concern himself with space or the final frontier.But when he found a giant piece of debris in his fields, Sawchuk said he was shocked to learn it was likely part of a rocket.
Photos of the discovery made their way to Samantha Lawler, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Regina. Lawler sent the photos and information about where it was found to her colleague Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard who tracks space launches. Lawler said the SpaceX Dragon is a capsule used to send people to the space station. Its trunk, an unpressurized cargo space, is attached to the capsule and provides power during the flight and while it's on the station. The trunk is ejected before the ship enters the atmosphere, where it’s expected to burn up. Chunks of debris were found on farmland in Australia in 2022. The Australian Space Agency confirmed at the time that it was from a SpaceX mission.
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