But only one woman has ever been hit by space junk: Lottie Williams from Oklahoma was smacked in the shoulder by a charred piece of space-rocket.

还好，到现在为止，只有一名妇女曾被太空垃圾击中：俄克拉何马的洛蒂·威廉姆斯的肩膀被一块烧焦的太空火箭碎片擦着了。

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The object was too light to be a brick, but it was the same density as a piece of foam from a solid rocket booster.

这一物体太轻了而不可能是一个砖，然而它和固体燃料助推器上的泡沫的密度是相同的。

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During the 2002 Atlantis flight, a piece of insulation broke off and damaged the left solid rocket booster but did not impede the mission or the programme.

亚特兰蒂斯号2002年在执行飞行任务的过程中，一橡胶密封圈破裂，左固体火箭助推器受损，好在当时没有防障任务的执行或影响飞行计划的完成。

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On March twenty-second, NASA again ordered the astronauts on the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of another piece of debris from a rocket.

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Its movements had all the hallmarks of being a spent rocket casing or other piece of space junk.

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One of its two wind probes was knocked out, most probably by a piece of grit kicked up by the rocket-powered descent stage that placed Curiosity on the surface.

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Three years later during STS-27, Atlantis' heat shield sustained severe damage from a piece of insulation that broke off of the right solid rocket booster during launch.

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