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In Texas, a wayward car-sized piece of NASA gear lands in field
Los Angeles Times
|October 16, 2025
When Ann Walter looked outside her rural west Texas home, she didn't know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting across the sky.
ANN WALTER
ANN Walter and her husband, Hayden, with NASA equipment that was launched about 140 miles away.
She was even more surprised to see what landed in her neighbor's wheat field: a boxy piece of scientific equipment about the size of a sport-utility vehicle, attached to a massive parachute, adorned with NASA stickers. She called the local sheriff's office and learned that NASA, indeed, was looking for a piece of equipment that had gone lost.
This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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