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First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 25 2016, @11:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-goes-up... dept.

hubie writes:

China confirmed in a press conference, that Tiangong-1, their first space station put into orbit in 2011, will re-enter and burn up in the atmosphere sometime in late 2017. There seems to be some uncertainty in when it will re-enter the atmosphere, which leads one to believe that the station is not under orbital control and that it will come back to Earth in the same manner that Skylab did in 1979.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2016, @08:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2016, @08:19AM (#406573)

    .. because they cannot maintain it, it is impossible.

    Now that youtube is everywhere, an increasing number of people sees right through the hoax: there IS NO "Chinese Space Station", as there is no "International Space Station". It is all greenscreens, smoke and mirrors, filmed in zero-G aircraft (and ridiculous amounts of hairspray), with the EVAs shot in a pool.