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The ’60s are back! The rockets of the ’60s, anyway.
That mystery space object that has been orbiting the Earth recently has finally been identified, and it’s exactly what scientists thought it might be: a rocket booster from the September 20, 1966, Surveyor 2 mission to the moon. The Surveyor 2 crashed on the moon but this rocket flew off into space and has been travelling around for the past 54 years.
How long ago was this?
Star Trek had just premiered, Jimi Hendrix was still called “Jimmy,” and I was only a year old. It’s amazing that the rocket not only survived in some way but actually came back.