Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, has weighed in on cosmic space rays posing a threat to air travel. Getty Images

This redefined shooting star.

It’s not just spacecraft that are impacted by the horrors of deep space. In October, 15 people were hospitalized after a cosmic ray sent a New Jersey-bound JetBlue flight plunging thousands of feet — a phenomenon that could potentially pose a threat to air travel.

“We have lots and lots of airplanes flying every day, so very occasionally these things will occur,” Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, told The Post. “If a particle strikes a critical circuit in a computer, it can corrupt the computer’s memory, sensor data, or potentially cause other damage.”

“This caused what’s called a ‘bit fl

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