Science
NASA says a 1960s non-reusable rocket booster has returned – Inverse
NASA’s Centaur upper stage rocket booster has likely returned to near-Earth space after more than 54 years from launch.
More than half a century
after it launched from our planet, rocket booster may have returned to Earth’s sphere of influence.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Thursday that Earth has hosted a temporary satellite over the past few months. Its characteristics suggest it’s a rocket booster likely a Centaur upper stage rocket booster, used in the 1960s to launch the Surveyor 2 spacecraft on its mission to the Moon.
The object is projected to come closest to Earth in December of this year.
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