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Oct292019

Samsung's 'Space Selfie' crash lands back on Earth

It was supposed to be sent out into space, but somehow it ends right back on Earth—on a farm in Michigan, to be exact. What are we talking about? We're talking about the "SpaceSelfie" PR stunt Samsung pulled, which was supposed to send a selfie of Cara Delevingne taken on a Galaxy S10 Plus off into space as the "world's first selfie sent to space." Somehow it ended right back on Earth, outside of Nancy Mumby-Welke's farmland home in Gratiot County, Michigan. She posed on Facebook, "Unbelievably look what just fell out of the sky and 911 is baffled, and it's caught up in our tree."

She told NBC News that they realized it fell from the sky, and the contraption looked like a satellite. The device had both a Samsung logo and high-altitude balloon manufacturer Raven Industries, who came to collect the apparatus. Thankfully, no one was injured. Samsung claims the landing was "planned," and it occurred in a "selected rural area."

Source: The Verge

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