Space debris from the SpaceX Dragon capsule crashed in the mountains of North Carolina. I had to go see it (video)

Space flight doesn’t usually come to mind when you think of the quiet, green mountains of North Carolina.

It is true that, in the early 1960s, NASA built the (now defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and Apollo. And, of course, there are some pockets of dark skies over Western North Carolina that make for good satellite viewing and skywatching.

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