claimed while watching a shooting star she felt a light tap on her shoulder. she had been hit with a piece of burned metal mesh from a delta two rocket booster. she did not get hurt, but she's the only person ever known to be hit by falling space deprix. fidel castro claimed that a piece of falling space debris killed a cuban cow. that was the background and context to unwhat it means that a school bus sized 6 1/2 ton satellite is hurtling toward our tiny blue earth right now. uars. the upper atmosphere research satellite. its mission was to monitor the ozone layer. it's out of fuel and has been slowly falling out of orbit for a long time now. it does now appear to be in the final death spiral. it's expected to break up in to hundreds of pieces as it hits it atmosphere. most of the pieces are expected