Wednesday, November 7, 2018

LOTTIE WILLIAMS - THE ONLY HUMAN TO HAVE EVER BEEN HIT BY SPACE DEBRIS

On April 24, 1996, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) launched an MSX satellite on a Delta II booster from Vandenberg AFB, California. 

The only person on record ever hit by space debris was hit by a piece of the Delta II rocket that launched MSX.

Lottie Williams was exercising in a park in Tulsa on January 22, 1997 when she was hit in the shoulder by a 6 inch piece of blackened metallic material. U.S. Space Command confirmed that a used Delta II rocket from the April 1966 launch of the Midcourse Space Experiment had crashed into the atmosphere 30 minutes earlier. The object tapped Lottie Williams on the shoulder and fell off harmlessly onto the ground. Williams collected the item and NASA tests later showed the fragment was consistent with the materials of the rocket.


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