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Astronaut drops 'smelly' fridge to Earth

A NASA astronaut has dropped a fridge to Earth from the space station where he was residing because of its bad smell. The stench of ammonia prompted Clay Anderson to ditch the 635kg unit from the International Space Station.

NASA’s Mike Suffredini has claimed that sending large objects to Earth is not a regular occurrence.

“As a matter of course, we don’t throw things overboard haphazardly,” he said. “We have a policy that has certain criteria we have to meet before you can throw something overboard.”

The fridge was expected to burn up on entering the Earth’s atmosphere last night, though fragments weighing up to 17.5kg could land at speeds of 100mph.

“This has got a very low likelihood that anybody will be impacted by it,” added Suffredini.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .