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After a chunk of Sputnik IV landed in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1962, White House space staff spent nearly two years trying to write rules for fallen spacecraft. Released by the Pentagon in October 2026, the papers show NASA, Defense, the CIA, State and the Atomic Energy Commission arguing over custody. A Defense draft sent foreign pieces to the military first "for intelligence purposes," NASA's international chief warned the plan used NASA as a "cover," and no final policy was ever settled.
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