Episode 178: What Goes Up...

In 1997, a woman named Lottie Williams felt a tap on her shoulder in an Oklahoma park. It was a piece of a Delta II rocket. She is the only person known to have been hit by falling space debris...so far.Above us, millions of fragments of human‑made junk orbit like bullets. Every week, something comes down. Nuclear satellites. Space stations. Shuttle wreckage. And if the Kessler Syndrome triggers a runaway chain reaction, low Earth orbit could become unusable for centuries.This episode takes you inside the hidden crisis, from the spacecraft cemetery at Point Nemo to the Florida home that got a hole in its roof, to the time it rained nuclear material. Listen now before the next piece finds its target!Lottie Williams with Delta II Space Debris - Turley, Oklahoma Lottie Williams, Delta II Rocket Kosmos 944 Soviet Radar Surveillance SatelliteNASA Skylab China's Long March 5B RocketSoviet Union’s Kosmos-482 Venus Probe Soviet Union’s Salyut 7 Space Station NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Photo NASA Space Shuttle ColumbiaNASA Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Photo NASA Space Shuttle Challenger NASA Space Shuttle Challenger Doomed Liftoff European Space Agency’s GOCE Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer 2 China’s Tiangong 1 European Space Agency’s ATV Jules VerneJapan’s HTV Kounotori Russia’s Progress M-27M NASA ISS EP-9 Soviet Union’s Mir Space StationOuttakes after the showGet some Supernatural Occurrence Studies podcast gear and support the show! Shop our Merch Store! Free shipping anywhere in the US on orders $25 or more! Visit our websiteEmail the show! [email protected] us a voicemail and we’ll play your message on the show! Call Chicago area code 872-529-0767Please rate The Supernatural Occurrence Studies Podcast on iTunes. We will read your reviews on the show!FaceBook: @ChicagoGhostPodcast Leave us a rating and a comment and we WILL read it on the show!Find and rate us on SpotifyFind us on iHeart RadioTwitch: @SOSChicaGhostInstagram: @ChicagoGhostsTwitter: @ChicagoGhostsYouTube: Supernatural Occurrence StudiesSet your proton packs to DONATE! If you love what you hear on The Supernatural Occurrence Studies Podcast, visit www.ChicagoGhostPodcast.com and select DONATEBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/supernatural-occurrence-studies-podcast--2792295/support.