{"id":143996,"date":"2022-08-14T19:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/australian-astrophysicist-says-we-are-lucky-spacexs-crew-1-debris-landed-in-a-rural-area"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:25:56","slug":"australian-astrophysicist-says-we-are-lucky-spacexs-crew-1-debris-landed-in-a-rural-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/australian-astrophysicist-says-we-are-lucky-spacexs-crew-1-debris-landed-in-a-rural-area","title":{"rendered":"Australian astrophysicist says \u2018we are lucky\u2019 SpaceX\u2019s Crew-1 debris landed in a rural area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-astrophysicist-says-we-are-lucky-spacexs-crew-1-debris-landed-in-a-rural-area2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was the first expert on the scene after two farmers found pieces of fallen space machinery.<\/p>\n<p>How do you identify a piece of space debris that\u2019s partially burned up on re-entry before falling down to Earth like a comet? It turns out that, in the case of a piece of SpaceX\u2019s Crew-1 capsule that recently came crashing down onto a sheep field in Australia, it wasn\u2019t too hard at all.<\/p>\n<p>Before he saw the piece of fallen space machinery in person, Dr. Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist from the Australian National University, was pretty sure it was going to be a piece of Crew-1, he tells IE in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Brad Tucker was the first expert on the scene after two farmers found pieces of space debris, now known to have come from SpaceX\u2019s Crew-1 mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was the first expert on the scene after two farmers found pieces of fallen space machinery. How do you identify a piece of space debris that\u2019s partially burned up on re-entry before falling down to Earth like a comet? It turns out that, in the case of a piece of SpaceX\u2019s Crew-1 capsule that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}