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- Most of the rocket burned up on reentering the atmosphere, China's space agency says. It was unclear if any debris had landed on the atoll nation. May 8, 2021An out-of-control Chinese rocket plunged out of orbit Saturday night ET and reentered Earth's atmosphere, according to China's space agency.
- What retired NASA astronaut says he'll do if rocket is headed his way May 8, 2021Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly talks to CNN's Jim Acosta about the uncertainty surrounding an out-of-control Chinese rocket that is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere.
- Opinion: The Earth's atmosphere is becoming a landfill for the space industry May 8, 2021More than 3 million years ago, members of an unknown hominin species sat on a river bank at the site of Lomekwi, in what is now Kenya, and made a set of stone tools for their daily tasks. Only a trained eye can distinguish the detritus they left behind from naturally broken rocks. In the […]