Posted on 07/30/2022 11:23:06 AM PDT by janetjanet998
massive Chinese booster rocket fell uncontrolled to Earth on Saturday and landed over the Indian Ocean, according to U.S. Space Command.
The booster is part of the 23-ton Long March 5B-Y3 rocket — China’s most powerful — that carried the Wentian module to China’s orbiting space station, aboard which three astronauts currently reside. China decided not to guide the booster back through the atmosphere.
Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit space research organization, predicted the booster would hit earth around 1:08 p.m. Eastern time, give or take an hour.
According to The New York Times, you have a better chance of winning the Mega Millions lottery than being struck by the falling space debris, but space debris experts told The Times the minimal risk is still higher than they’d like.
Indian ocean? So much for the power of prayer.
Very puny! The Saturn V weighed 3268 tons.
144 tons without fuel.
Was the Chinese figure with or without fuel? And, it is still puny by comparison.
Our map projections lie to our brain. It’s friggen HUGE!
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