Chinese Space Lab Crashes To Earth
Tiangong-1, an abandoned Chinese orbiting lab, re-entered the atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Sunday evening, fulfilling predictions by the European Space Agency.
by Camila Domonoske
Apr 01, 2018
2 minutes
Updated at 10:15 p.m. ET
As predicted, China's Tiangong-1 space lab fell from the sky on Sunday evening.
The city bus-sized craft, which almost entirely burned up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, broke into small pieces as it plummeted over the South Pacific Ocean. The derelict spacecraft has been slowly
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