Debris from American Rocket Washed Up On Isles of Scilly

A piece of metal recovered from the sea off Cornwall looks to be debris from an American space rocket.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who also own the Tesla electric auto brand, is attempting to make space flight more affordable by using cheaper launch vehicles like the Falcon-9.

Part of a rocket that took off from the United States earlier this year has travelled across the Atlantic and ended up on the shores of the Scilly Isles.

John Raoux/AP The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in takeoff.

A large piece of metal alloy, about 10 meters by 4 meters, was spotted between Bryher and Tresco; local and professional boatmen helped bring it in to the beach at Tresco. Now, some of the debris appears to have washed up on the United Kingdom coast-over 4,000 miles from where the accident happened.

“We’re grateful for all those who helped in its recovery”.

Joseph Thomas, aboard the boat, said he initially noticed the rocket section was surrounded by seagulls and thought it was a dead whale.

“We first thought it was part of a plane, but when we scraped the barnacles off we saw it was part of a rocket”.

Debris from the doomed SpaceX Falcon-9 was apparently discovered by coastguards patrolling the tranquil destination south-west of the United Kingdom mainland, some five months after the unmanned rocket exploded as it left Cape Canaveral in Florida.