An Australian sheep farmer has found a large piece of space junk from Elon Musk's space company SpaceX in a pasture.
The Australian Space Agency confirmed on Thursday that the charred debris came from one of the SpaceX missions.
The space junk was found last week in Dalgety, about a five-hour drive southwest of Sydney, but probably fell to earth on July 9th.
Astrophysicist Brad Tucker, who studied the find in the remote region, told AFP the situation was "at once exciting and strange";
the blackened find in a deserted landscape reminded him of the legendary opening scene of the classic film "2001: A Space Odyssey".
With his space company SpaceX, Tesla boss and billionaire Elon Musk offers private trips into space and transports astronauts into space on behalf of the US space agency NASA.
Tucker estimates that the fragment found in Australia is from SpaceX's first mission on behalf of NASA.
The part was dropped from the Crew 1 capsule when it reentered the earth's atmosphere last year.