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A woman got hit by a rocket and walked it off. πŸš€
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Ironic TwistsJul 31, 2026

A woman got hit by a rocket and walked it off. πŸš€

A woman got hit by a rocket and walked it off. πŸš€ . . . On January 22, 1997, Lottie Williams was walking through a Tulsa park at 3:30 AM when a 5-inch piece of blackened fiberglass tapped her on the shoulder. It felt, she said, like an empty soda can. NASA later confirmed: it was a fragment of a Delta II rocket that had launched the Midcourse Space Experiment satellite, re-entering from orbit. She remains the only human ever confirmed struck by space debris.

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https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/114727-first-person-hit-by-space-junk
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