I liked how they managed to somehow make it seem like Russia's fault. > "You can trace the reason this object came down unguided back to a Russian launch fail

I liked how they managed to somehow make it seem like Russia's fault. > "You can trace the reason this object came down unguided back to a Russian launch failure more than five years ago" I'm sure that when making their carefully choreographed schedule NASA was well aware that at some point a rocket might not make it and that they'd have to deal with it (or not) if/when that happened. NASA made the choice to leave the batteries up there, then decided not to send something up to bring them back and just drop them uncontrolled instead. > "It gets more interesting if this material is discovered to be not originally from the United States," she told Ars. "If it is a human-made space object which was launched into space by another country, which caused damage on Earth, that country would be absolutely liable to the homeowner for the damage caused." I hope that if the thing that fell was from the ISS that NASA compensates the home owner right away instead of waiting to figure out if japan made the piece that fell and leaving the homeowner to figure out how to send Japan the bill and collect.