Me standing amidst a collection of partly burned metal and carbon fibre space junk leaning on a white metal wall. I'm looking at the camera with my arms outstretched and with a yelly-smiley face. The piece of junk next to me is much, much taller than I am. There are two farmers in the background who are the ones who found pieces of junk on their land.

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   Barry had his neighbour bring over the terrifyingly huge piece he found for a great photo op for all the journalists. That particular piece was 9 feet long, weighed 80 pounds, and was shaped like a freaking spear. It is shocking to think about that falling at terminal velocity.

   I am grinning like an idiot because I was REALLY excited.

   There was about 250 lbs of junk here. SpaceX has never shared how much a Crew Dragon Trunk weighs, I'd guess this is a significant fraction!